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

Soul_Rattler said:
If you watched this movie in its entirety and decided that black Americans are bad, you've done exactly what systems of racism want you to, which is to highlight a man's state of being while ignoring his environment.

Don't indulge in a meta-social commentary on this film by saying Killmonger was an extremist without acknowledging that his methods were learned from the United States military. Don't say he just wanted to be a colonizer without acknowledging that he grew up in a colonized country. Don't say he didn't care about culture and family when he grew up in the hood under a single mother.

That's what I call intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance: ignoring or dismissing a fact because it conflicts with a preexisting belief that you hold.

@Gray Matter
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Just reading this again.

@ the bolded: Is it so hard to believe that whites and other non-blacks would let that happen? I certainly wouldn't put it past them. Even uninformed Africans could fall into the trap.

Also, these people (non-blacks, maybe some Africans) already have negative views of African Americans. So my claim is that this movie will reinforce them, not ferment them anew.

In general, I don't see why people should be so resistant to this analysis. Is it that you think whites are not inclined to have negative views about African Americans? I don't know why anybody would think that. Is it because it has a black director and screenwriter? That doesn't prove anything. Even if they were well-intentioned, the film could still work to reinforce negative views.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
Damn Crank Lucas did a video about this thread.

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This dude fails to recognize that most people make distinctions between different blacks: African Americans are viewed differently from West Indians, West Indians are viewed differently from Africans, etc.

So on the whole, the movie portrays blacks in a positive light. BUT -- and this is the thing -- it comes at the cost of the negative portrayal of one subgroup of blacks against the positive portrayal of another. Africans come out looking good, but African Americans not so much.
 
Gray Matter said:
Just reading this again.

@ the bolded: Is it so hard to believe that whites and other non-blacks would let that happen? I certainly wouldn't put it past them. Even uninformed Africans could fall into the trap.

Also, these people (non-blacks, maybe some Africans) already have negative views of African Americans. So my claim is that this movie will reinforce them, not ferment them anew.

In general, I don't see why people should be so resistant to this analysis. Is it that you think whites are not inclined to have negative views about African Americans? I don't know why anybody would think that. Is it because it has a black director and screenwriter? That doesn't prove anything. Even if they were well-intentioned, the film could still work to reinforce negative views.
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Its we dont care. If people dumb enough to believe this in 2018 fuck them
 
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