It's blatant cultural appropriation!
Posted on 02/17/2018 8:09:32 AM PST by EdnaMode
There is a whole lot to like about Marvel’s $200 million Black Panther, and almost as much not to like. For starters, director and co-writer Ryan Coogler does an A+ job of world building (more on this later). In addition, the soundtrack and score also deserve an A+. Then there are the actors, the best cast yet assembled in all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (by far). Black Panther is set in the fictional Wakanda, an idyllic country hidden in the heart Africa thanks to an alien metal called vibranium. This resource (delivered eons ago by way of a meteor) not only gives Wakanda the ability to disguise itself as a third-world country (and therefore remain blissfully ignored by the outside world), but to enjoy an extraordinary standard of living through the miracles of technology and science.
The real Wakanda looks like an African country — open markets, vibrant colors, the architecture, the love of long-held traditions… But if you look closer, everyone enjoys the lifestyle of a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Wakanda is ruled by King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who is also known as the Black Panther. T’Challa is big on border security, believes Wakanda and Wakandans should come first, and fiercely protects his country’s culture from outsiders, including refugees. If this is all starting to sound familiar, it should. Also like President Donald Trump, T’Challa’s beliefs are not based on race. This is not a “black thing.” This is a culture/survival thing.
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Still don’t plan on seeing it. I probably will - but not until after opening weekend.
Not that I’m against black characters - I’m just sick of the politicization. If I were black, I’d be upset that I was being patronized - U need to see this movie if you is black!
If anything this is white CEO exploitation of the black people.
But the villain is a hero and the hero does some of what the villain wanted. The movie was excellent but grated on me when it espoused liberal black American tripe, like about blacks being “overly incarcerated”. It sounded like blacks needed help everywhere but Africa. The movie was very good but it accepted racialism.
Their tenuous grasp on reality has propagated into the realm of fantasy.
A sure sign that their mental disorder is progressing as many such diseases of the mind do. Probably why they are called progressives.
Way too much about “people who look like us”. In reality, Africans do NOT identify with black Americans. This movie espoused blacks as a race it accepted the modern liberal love of skin color. Having said that, I enjoyed the movie and blacks will love it. But when you think about it they made the “black” panther very much a polarizing reference to skin color.
The Cast isn’t very diverse, is it?
If they make movies about Europe from 400 years ago, they still have to find a way to shoehorn at least one black person into the cast.
Ha. That’s about right. Blacks need help everywhere but Africa. Because when they’re home, in the immortal line from Blood Diamonds, they’re “just another n****r in Africa.”
Shaft was a cultural experience!
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft)
You're damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother,
man? (Shaft)…
Can ya dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? (Shaft) Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother (Shut your mouth)
How many times do they say , “My King” in the movie ,LOL
It's blatant cultural appropriation!
I’m sick of superwomen.
Wow. I thought it was going to be something like the evil white man is oppressing and Black Panther whups the white devils ass. Wow, I guess we can expect the left to protest this movie soon and call it racist!
This is why Black Panther was called a movie for white supremacists. Liberals consider nationalism and ethnic pride, by whites, evil.
That’s how a liberal author could say that any whites who picked up the message from the movie justifying stronger border control and immigration limits evil but it is OK when non-whites do the same.
They hate OUR nations, culture and ethnicity. Everyone else is literally better.
It seems many Blacks are anti-Trump not based on facts or reason ( there are none) but because their DemoRat tribal masters sound off loudly against him so the rest just blindly follow in because ‘that’s the way to go’.
>>Not that I’m against black characters - I’m just sick of the politicization.
Black Panther has always been a black super-hero, and not an “angry black man” like John Stewart, the alternate Green Lantern of Sector 2814. BP really is the kind of super-hero that we would like black kids to look up to.
I haven’t seen the movie because I don’t do theaters anymore, but at face value (and based on BP’s appearances in other MCU movies) I’m not going to denounce this character.
Yeaaaah, I’m a grownup.
I haven’t cared about comics or comic book figures since i was 10.
Pass. Again.
That was 20 years ago. Now they have to be depicted in any and all characters. So on Brittania, half the Roman Centurions are nubian blacks. Not slaves, centurions. Like the Romans were known for elevating southern africans into full social status with themselves. With some of the Gauls maybe, but the BLACKS?
Little thought experiment. What do you suppose would happen in the real world outside of Hollywood if a meteor of gold fell on any country, African or otherwise?
The price of gold would go into free fall due to oversupply.
I hate going head-to-head with people smarter than me. {This is me smiling.}
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