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DC'S BLACK SUPERMAN MOVIE IS REPEATING A CLASSIC J.J. ABRAMS MISTAKE
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Posted on 05/13/2021 7:11:39 AM PDT by MNDude

But all we can do right now about this Black Superman movie is guess. We don’t know who the Black Superman will be. By keeping his “identity” unknown, as Abrams coyly did with Khan, we cannot yet have a healthy conversation about race and the still-dominant superhero media.

I would love to see a Black Clark Kent. By changing the skin of Clark, who for so long has been an avatar for humility, kindness, and truth-seeking as an idealistic reporter, our baked-in notions about what those attributes look like would be challenged. We might reconsider what it means to let the best of us represent the rest of us.


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To: BenLurkin

Superman would have discovered the truth about his powers at 5 years old, when police shot at him in front of Jon and Martha Kent’s farm for being “in the wrong part of town”. But it must be remembered that superman landed during WW I in the mid 19teens. He went to work at the Planet in 1940. So that would make him 25 to 30 years old when he entered the world society. And the 1940’s was the start of the civil rights movement.

His adoptive parents would have instilled in him all the same values of love, compassion, mercy, and servitude that we associate with Clark Kent today, only this Clark Kent would have had to reconcile those values with the systemic racism he experiences and sees others go through as he gets older. (Whether it exists or not)

Why should he concern himself with the concerns of a society that hates people that look like him? Why not pummel Nazis at Charlottesville instead? Who needs Lex Luthor when you have our federal government hounding him for his birth certificate and calling him an alien and having half (maybe more) of the nation agreeing with him? He could fix it all if he wanted to, make them all pay so easily.

But, at the end of the day, no matter what color he is, he is still the son of Jonathan and Martha Kent, and that’s what makes him a hero. In time, perhaps the rest of the world will see it, too…if they can get past their own BS of the destruction of our society using fantasy.

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81 posted on 05/13/2021 9:02:16 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Army Air Corps
There were a couple of black Bond Girls before Halle Berry.

Grace Jones! Gaaaa!
82 posted on 05/13/2021 9:15:54 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Yep. I still think that someone was drunk or bribed heavily for her to be a Bond Girl - she is NOT easy on the eyes. On the other hand, Gloria Hendry was much more attractive than Grace Jones.


83 posted on 05/13/2021 9:22:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MNDude

J.J. ABRAMS ruins anything he is involved with.


84 posted on 05/13/2021 9:25:18 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: for-q-clinton

His cape is bright pink and his costume is rainbow striped


85 posted on 05/13/2021 9:37:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MNDude

I was going to say lens flare but what ever. . . . . .


86 posted on 05/13/2021 9:48:43 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: LibertarianLiz; SJackson
If a white person had taken a long-standing black person's role we would be having non-stop articles about “cultural appropriation”. When it's the other way around, we get articles about how brave and wonderful this is.

Hell, when a Semitic (true Middle Eastern) woman plays a true Middle Eastern (Egyptian) queen of Greek-Semitic ancestry, the “blacks” get jealous and racially angry that a Nubian was not selected!

87 posted on 05/13/2021 10:35:59 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: PIF

And he aborts babies with a touch of his hand whether the woman wants it or not. But in the end she always wants it.


88 posted on 05/13/2021 11:15:48 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Army Air Corps
Let me guess, the new Superman will also have the hots for Louis Lane.

Thread winner. Congratulations. Pick up your kewpie doll at the front desk.

89 posted on 05/13/2021 11:21:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: MNDude

In a rehash of The Terminator that came out a few years ago, the evil T-1000 Shapeshifting Policeman was Asian.

Don’t think any Black guys attacked him though.


90 posted on 05/13/2021 11:28:08 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: MNDude

They will have to change his boss’ name.


91 posted on 05/13/2021 12:42:59 PM PDT by Blogatron (I don’t know how to be less white, but I do know how to buy less Coke.)
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To: MNDude

Tom Clancy’s guy on the new Streaming Movie is now black. It was a good movie but why that had to be done is a bit of a puzzle.


92 posted on 05/13/2021 12:54:26 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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