There's another gripe that I have with this trailer and it's the usage of a rap song for the background theme. I thought Marvel Studios would be better than this to do something so stereotypical when it comes to marketing, but that just utterly disappoints me as a black man to see that. It's 2017 - you don't need a rap song to promote a black film. That's as bad as almost every other moment in Luke Cage was either a rap song or some stereotypical black culture reference or moment. You take that couple it with reading articles like this online, where some of my fellow black people take this stuff FAR too seriously in terms of reactions. Where were you people when the other black superheroes were getting movies and/or TV shows? Where were you people when those black superheroes' comics got cancelled due to low sales and little support?
Don't get it confused either. I'm VERY happy to see Black Panther getting a solo film, but these reactions where people are acting like this is going to be a holiday when this movie drops (much like the same reactions when Wonder Woman's solo film debut occurred earlier this year) are a bit too much. It's just a damn movie. Twenty plus years ago, most of the casual fans wouldn't have given a flying fuck about this being a reality, so don't try to make it be like you're all lit for this now just because you are trying to fit in or going through emotions as the current MCU flavor of the month. If you're genuinely happy to see this, good for you - continue supporting the comic book industry by buying and reading comics and seeing these movies of the characters that you grew up loving.
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