that's a dope post and i'm well aware of everything you said.
still doesn't change the entire premise of this entire debate.
Embracing something and making it your own is what Black People did with BP, and that's cool.
Coates is from bmore, i remember when he became the writer of BP, it was a semi big deal. And i like how they made the characters fit into todays world.....
i never once said i disliked the movie at all....so again, people constantly miss my critique as hate....
I'm pointing out that BP was ALWAYS something GIVEN to us to appease the demand for more representation. The character's entire incarnation was fro inclusion, and so that there can at the least be one big black face in the sea of white comic book characters.
over the last decade or so, strides have been made to make BP a bigger character and bring him to the forefront, as seen by the recent changes in the characters direction, and including him in the already successful MCU... but again... this was a calculated and strategic effort....
When homie asked about them other movies.... the whole thing is different....there's a big difference between black movie makers looking to make a movie and gettign help from a big studio to get their art out there...
than an already big and established company, creating a black character and adding it to their already successful formula...
that's not a knock, it's calling it what it is..
P's take on it is that niggaz jumped on BP like we really did that, like that shit was really something that black people created and made to be great....
naw that shit was a white creation, and placed on their already established platform, just so we could have a hero too....
his point is if you really wanna celebrate black cinema and black story telling, support the smaller movies that are all black, and fighting to be seen on a screen the same energy.
and i agree
