Cindi Mayweather
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Black Panther is a 2018 film directed by Ryan Coogler.
It stars two characters, Black Panther and Killmonger, as they fight to prove the rightness of their ideology.
Let's get it out of the way. Killmonger represents the Black American. He's half American, half Wakandan (African). He was left behind by his ancestors who decided to leave him there. Because of this, he has a deep seeded anger. He has justifiable reasons for his anger, just like black Americans.
This parallel is obvious especially to black people. It's pretty much why he's so celebrated, because people connect with him so much.
Black Panther on the other hand was raised in a land nestled by the comforts and successes of his ancestors.
The problem with Killmonger's anger is that it turned from justified anger to burn everything. If Killmonger had just taken the throne by rightful combat and been a just king that spread Wakanda's tech in a humane way it would have been just fine. It's interesting that Killmonger was written in a time when black Americans are currently embodying a "fuck white people" "all white people are racist" ideology that dismisses people solely by their race through their very justified anger.
Killmonger is your average BLM-er made flesh, but with experienced combat training. He even burns his own homeland out of pure fury.
But there's another way, and Black Panther takes some prodding, but eventually sees the error of his fathers ways of leaving his cousin in backwater America. At the end of the movie he shows black pride not by anger, nor fury. But by benevolence and open dialogue. Killmonger on the other hand dies from his own fury. A wound that was self inflicted. He refused to get help.
You could see BP as a story that tells of the extremism of black politics on either side of the aisle. It's fine to be mad about injustice, but when you do so in an unjust way you aren't helping the problem. But closing yourself off to it and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't help either.
The only thing that wins at the end of the day is love.
TLDR: Ryan Coogler sold SJW black folk a woke film that basically posits that they're in the wrong and made a billion dollars at the box office out of it. The movie acts as a warning to all black Americans: don't become Killmonger.
I came to these conclusions when i first saw the movie on release weekend, but seeing it a second time with my folks a few days later really sealed it. How do you interpret BP?
IMO it's the best super hero movie I've seen even though it has some flaws (anything involving his brother for instance).
It stars two characters, Black Panther and Killmonger, as they fight to prove the rightness of their ideology.
Let's get it out of the way. Killmonger represents the Black American. He's half American, half Wakandan (African). He was left behind by his ancestors who decided to leave him there. Because of this, he has a deep seeded anger. He has justifiable reasons for his anger, just like black Americans.
This parallel is obvious especially to black people. It's pretty much why he's so celebrated, because people connect with him so much.
Black Panther on the other hand was raised in a land nestled by the comforts and successes of his ancestors.
The problem with Killmonger's anger is that it turned from justified anger to burn everything. If Killmonger had just taken the throne by rightful combat and been a just king that spread Wakanda's tech in a humane way it would have been just fine. It's interesting that Killmonger was written in a time when black Americans are currently embodying a "fuck white people" "all white people are racist" ideology that dismisses people solely by their race through their very justified anger.
Killmonger is your average BLM-er made flesh, but with experienced combat training. He even burns his own homeland out of pure fury.
But there's another way, and Black Panther takes some prodding, but eventually sees the error of his fathers ways of leaving his cousin in backwater America. At the end of the movie he shows black pride not by anger, nor fury. But by benevolence and open dialogue. Killmonger on the other hand dies from his own fury. A wound that was self inflicted. He refused to get help.
You could see BP as a story that tells of the extremism of black politics on either side of the aisle. It's fine to be mad about injustice, but when you do so in an unjust way you aren't helping the problem. But closing yourself off to it and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't help either.
The only thing that wins at the end of the day is love.
TLDR: Ryan Coogler sold SJW black folk a woke film that basically posits that they're in the wrong and made a billion dollars at the box office out of it. The movie acts as a warning to all black Americans: don't become Killmonger.
I came to these conclusions when i first saw the movie on release weekend, but seeing it a second time with my folks a few days later really sealed it. How do you interpret BP?
IMO it's the best super hero movie I've seen even though it has some flaws (anything involving his brother for instance).
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