Wakanda - check. Pre-dominantly all-black/African-American cast - check. Black Panther kicking all KINDS of ass in this trailer - double check. They definitely checked off all of the bullet points that I was looking for this trailer. I was starting to get afraid that they were going to push this back again since there wasn't any trailer for it or any news/anything for that matter on this film for a long while.
Here's my issue that I have with the reactions to it.
These are the same people raving about this when they either don't know jack shit about comics and are the SAME fucking people who are the first to complain about the lack of diversity in comics and/or these superhero films. "There's not enough black superheroes or heroes of other minorities" orbetter yet, "I wish there was a Black Batman and Spider-Man..." like I saw posted on my FB timeline this past week when we live in times where we have Miles Morales as a black/latino Spider-Man (something as a black kid growing up would've KILLED for TBH) and Batwing (Lucius Fox's son last I checked) as a legit black Batman. FYI there's a black Captain America now (formerly the Falcon/Sam Wilson), Storm's leading the X-Men now (well again if you're a long-time reader), and there's a black Superman too if you love the Earth-2 JLA stuff as much I did.
Then on top of that, Black Panther himself has been around for like FOREVER now with a lot of stellar comics and appearances in media, but you don't EVER hear these same fucking people who whine about the lack of representation talk about that stuff. Bravo, we got a black led Marvel superhero film coming up - mad props for that and I'm proud to see this character getting mainstream exposure, especially being a black man myself.
I'm just afraid that this is going to be the same situation as Wonder Woman that just came out where people are just going to rave about it since it's a "historical landmark" for this hero getting a film period and sugarcoat everything about it because people are just happy that they got something period. At least in Marvel's case, I'm confident that they are going to deliver, but damn, I'm not looking forward to seeing people bandwagon onto this character for the next few months just like Luke Cage, Harley Quinn (thanks to Suicide Squad), Deadpool, or whatever is the superhero flavor of the month.
Last but not least, can we as African-Americans/black people stop with the memes of what we're going to be wearing to the premiere of this film? I know I didn't see any women jumping up and down, burning their bras during the Wonder Woman premiere/launch, so quit trying to use this film as an excuse to show out or be "turnt up" or whatever the ghetto lingo is nowadays.
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