NO DICE. Africans NEVER invented the wheel, or arch, or much of anything else prior to the evil White man's arrival.
Posted on 02/11/2018 6:10:59 PM PST by Ennis85
The Black Panther first entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in 2016 in Captain America: Civil War.
Now he's got his own film, which goes way beyond the usual expectations of fantasy, fight scenes and romance.
Having a plot based around a black superhero with a predominantly black cast is a first for Marvel, but the film builds on this concept in a massive way.
Directed by Creed's Ryan Coogler, it is set in the mythical country of Wakanda: a hidden African kingdom with incredible technological power, due to its reserves of the world's most useful precious metal.
Chadwick Boseman, who plays its king T'Challa and (more importantly) the Black Panther, tells the BBC that getting Wakanda right was the most important thing.
"This is fantasy and we have to create a culture," he says. "It's not necessarily because it's the first time we're seeing a black superhero; I think it's because we have to define what Wakanda is.
"It can't be some generalised version of what the country is or the accent.
"It can't be generalised in why we wear certain clothing or why we have the number of tribes we have - what are those tribes?
"We have a river tribe and a border tribe for example."
This is echoed by his co-star Lupita Nyong'o, who plays Nakia in the film - his love interest and moral compass rolled into one.
The Oscar-winning actress tells the BBC: "We're in Africa and we meet an entirely new nation that the world has never been to, and it delivers on feeling like another part of the world.
"This is a nation that is highly developed, and they are so because they didn't get interrupted by or assaulted by colonialism."
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I think the key point that the author is trying to make is...they’re black.
Can’t wait till the day that superheros are judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.
Many years ago I read Thomas Pakenham’s book, “The Scramble for Africa”. Had a lot of history on Africa and it's colonization in the later half of the 19th Century.
Africa, until the Europeans arrived in the 16th century I think, had lived the same way for thousands of years. As opposed to cultures and societies in other places, the Africans never evolved past a certain point.
The tribes were nomadic, primitive, and basically lived from day to day. To my knowledge they never invented much of anything and remained the same never developing as so many other places did. The causes for this I can't answer, although I have an good idea.
So you have the Black Panther movie with an advanced African Society but somehow they never shared their technology with any of the other tribes or countries. How does your Liberal with White Guilt explain any of this???????????
LOL!
A number of those pictures were not bad. Some of them had white crossover fans. I always liked Richard Roundtree as “Shaft”.
Every time African countries have used the anti-colonialism excuse to blame whitey for all their problems, it has led to mass slaughters. When they kicked white farmers out of Zimbabwe, it just led to starvation and ethnic cleansings. Which continent has the worse genocides, and who is doing it? It’s not whites. The Nazis blamed the wrong people for their problems, and so are black people who say white people caused all of theirs.
Of course, the fact that he was black was immaterial. He just happened to be black, and they didn't act like it was a big deal. Amazing what happens when skin color is treated as unimportant.
We wuz kings.
All the hype in world won’t help this turkey
“What about all those crappy blaxploitation movies from the 1970s? Surely Shaft, Superfly, and Cleopatra Jones qualify as superheroes.”
Shut your mouth! But I’m talkin’about Shaft.
I have seen reviews on YouTube and all of them praise this movie highly, whether the reviewers are black or white. In fact it is one of the highest recommended movies in the Marvel Universe, and one reviewer stated that it is a good enough movie on its own, not just as a Marvel movie. So I am not expecting it to be an anti-white film.
But not only are the reviews reviewing the film, but the reviews reveal the reviewer as well. I guess this comment reveals something about the actress. The thing is, Africa is being recolonized right now, by China, and most African leaders are fully in favor of it.
This movie seems to build on the myth of Louis Farrakhan, unindicted co-conspirator in the murder of Malcolm X(Little). Of Africans inventing white people as soul less demons, who brought down a civilization that flew without internal combustion engines before European honkies could wash their own faces.
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Colonialism in Africa was a commercial venture that was abandoned when the European populations wouldn’t sacrifice their children anymore to keep it going; in the end it allowed the populations to explode and left them with little to no means to administer themselves as independent countries. Does anyone today still believe the “good” from colonialism outweighed the “bad”?
Blacks in independent African countries didn’t just target whites; in East Africa they expelled their Indians as well because they saw them as parasites (using much of the original Nazi language). They basically chased out anyone with financial know-how, as well as their professionals; Nelson Mandela was terrified the same would happen in South Africa, and begged the whites to stay. He stated they would have no doctors or teachers if they fled, and was willing to grant concessions to let them be comfortable staying - and that alone explain why the Zimbabwe disaster wasn’t repeated in South Africa (as dangerous as it is).
“Gadot” means “riverbank” in Hebrew, for your information.
Thank you. Good to know.
And she is still very easy on the eyes.
NO DICE. Africans NEVER invented the wheel, or arch, or much of anything else prior to the evil White man's arrival.
I don’t know how much of the “bad” outweighed the “good”, but without European exploration which later led to colonization, a lot more of the world would be living in near-stone age conditions. Much of it was just plain conquering indigenous populations, certainly. A lot was also colonizing land that was basically free of human habitation anyway. Probably the worst thing was the spreading of diseases, which took place on both sides but was unforeseen and unintended.
At one point there was a civilization in the Amazon whose earthworks were spread across at least 155 miles. It wasn’t always jungle.
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