OPINION Is Marvel's Black Panther movie really a "special moment" for Black America??

King Du said:
Man I done seen at least 30 people say only address them as wakandans from here on out
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Focal Point said:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this just isn't because it's black ppl getting in the spirit, but rather you don't like when people get dressed up for Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings as well
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That's part of it for me..
But there is also an emptiness in our efforts that bothers me. I've been trying to articulate it, but I will admit this discussion is exhausting. So I've reverted to trolling quite a few times.
TheNightKing said:
Difference between this and Color Purple is that even Color Purple had us looking kind of bad in the movie.

This movie makes us powerful and prideful the entire movie. Name another all black cast movie that's done this.

We were finally the shit in this movie!
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I don't think color purple made us look bad. It was an honest periodic piece. A powerful family story. And a hear wrenching drama. We gotta stop looking at our past in shame. When we deny our past it makes it easier to replace it with lies.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
True. But keep in mind, The Color Purple was grounded in reality whereas this movie is superhero fantasy. You gotta take that for what it's worth. It's a lot easier to paint a people the way you want in fiction than it is in reality, especially when a lot of the reality is ugly.
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This
 
Focal Point said:
The specific answer I was looking for was yes or no...

And I'm thinking the desire for the embracing comes from inspiration. So if a comic book movie is what it's gonna take to get the people to want to go at it open arms, than that's a start
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Sometimes yes or no answers don’t provide full context.

A comic book movie making a black person enbrace Africa is the hill you’re willing to die on?
 
King Du said:
It's an opportunity to teach.

But it's gonna take a minute to get the class attention cuz they more focused on fantasy vs reality
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If there's a failure to take advantage of the opportunity to teach these young black boys & girls, who are intrested & excited to learn more about the ""reality"" of their African heritage & beyond...because of a ""fantasy"" film that's a failure on the parents, NOT Black Panther's writers, director, actors, or freakin' Marvel & Disney
 
a.mann said:
You or no one else can decide or predict what spark will inspire and get people fire up...

But what you can decide on is how you will react to that "spark". You see people ready and hungry to learn more

Do you use that spark to be progressive or diverse?
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Chi-Town B said:
The reason why they want to embrace it shouldn't matter, the fact that anything has people wanting to check African heritage is all that matters
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I must be in the twilight zone lol. Y’all comments are proving my point. A comic book movie should not be making black people embrace Africa, and if it does then it speaks volumes.
 
a.mann said:
Check that vid I just posted

Seit...is right....A lot of our people are disgruntled and ruined on the inside.

Instead of flipping this and using the movie to capitalize off the people's excitement of learning more about Africa....They live to "kill" the joy of the film.
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Just described Du lol
 
I can imagine my anthropology teacher now

"Welcome class.... First things first. Wakanda is not real. Vibranium is not real . And the only black panthers that are real are the revolutionaries out of Oakland. We will not be discussing comic book lore in this classroom so please do not ask. However we will be learning the history and customs of many cultures, some of them the African cultures that the movie borrowed from. Now before we begin do we have any NON COMIC BOOK MOVIE questions??"

:ainttrippin:
 
People acting like roots didnt spark anything. Not daying black panther is a modern roots at all. But largely most niggas dont know anything about Africa which is sad but its reality. Somebody was gonna do something to spark up interest in Africa eventually.

I think Du was feeling that we all gonna act like fake Africans and forget our heritage here. I can understand that feeling
 
King Du said:
I can imagine my anthropology teacher now

"Welcome class.... First things first. Wakanda is not real. Vibranium is not real . And the only black panthers that are real are the revolutionaries out of Oakland. We will not be discussing comic book lore in this classroom so please do not ask. However we will be learning the history and customs of many cultures, some of them the African cultures that the movie borrowed from. Now before we begin do we have any NON COMIC BOOK MOVIE questions??"

:ainttrippin:
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You really think college age kids are going to go into class like that
 
Kzzl said:
We won't see what kind of impact this movie has till after it's out of theaters. I predict that folks will go right back to whatever they were doing before the first trailer was revealed. It's a fad that people can have fun with for now.

All these messages in the movie are the same messages the woke community has been preaching for years. Ain't none of it new to those that are informed. It's just that main stream society is letting it ride for now. If Kill Monger was a poster on the IC he would of been banned. Most of them would of hated dude. In real life a lot of these folks now openly hopping on the woke wagon would of left him out to dry. Like they do real life blacks that try to do shit. In real life I see Kill Monger dying exactly like he did in the movie but to some racist cops bullet. Demonized by the media and alone.

Chris Jorner was a real life Kill Monger. That nigga in Houston that was shooting at cops during that March, him too. Probably more and they all have died in vain. So there's a lot of new dashiki mfer's I'm giving the side eye.
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It sounds like you support Jeff Sessions and the F.B.I. labeling B.I.E. SMH
 
HellCzar said:
People acting like roots didnt spark anything. Not daying black panther is a modern roots at all. But largely most niggas dont know anything about Africa which is sad but its reality. Somebody was gonna do something to spark up interest in Africa eventually.

I think Du was feeling that we all gonna act like fake Africans and forget our heritage here. I can understand that feeling
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It did have a spark, but here's the $1000 question. Has our economic status in our community improved?
 
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Black Caesar said:
It did have a spark, but here's the $1000 question. Has are economic status in our community improved?
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Yes. If you think we as a whole are in the same state that we were in the 70s or 80s then idk how to convince you otherwise. I dont even discuss this with most black people because most black people are negative and have nostalgia
 
HellCzar said:
Yes. If you think we as a whole are in the same state that we were in the 70s or 80s then idk how to convince you otherwise. I dont even discuss this with most black people because most black people are negative and have nostalgia
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We haven't progressed. We have actually regressed.
 
Like I read the color purple an did a book report for my mom's the summer before I started middle School.

And that's not the only black book I read. I've literally read well over 100 fictional black novels about black folk from slavery times up until now... An unless it was a poorly written book, I did not look at black folk in a negative light.

Even impossible books to read like beloved and there eyes were watching god... The books are not painting is negative..... That's a perception...

Maybe y'all see our past as negative or embarrassing....I see the stories...

Richard wright black boy still fucks impacts me decades later...

The only division is decision
 
5th Letter said:
Nah but Disney got paid.
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This guy gets it. All this past weekend showed is that we'll sit and wait for others to tell our stories or create heroes for us, instead of getting our economic base together to create and support our own. We as a community need to be competing instead of waiting for "master" to sweep the crumbs to us. The Asians, and the Latinos seem to get this.
 
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