He would be like a skinhead, but with an afro.
One hand raised in protest as a fist, the black power salute, clutching a flag emblazoned with a rainbow coloured swastika.
The other hand attempting a feeble, limp-wristed Seig Heil, barely mustering the strength to hold a piece of fried chicken, coincidentally shaped like a hammer and sickle.
He wears a dark hoodie with a picture of Che Guevara, who himself is wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Richard Spencer being punched by Chairman Mao, who is wearing a red MAGA baseball cap, loaned to him by Joseph Goebbels, the original founder of Antifa.
His archetype - Pepe the gorilla, sipping on a soy milkshake.
This baby was no ordinary baby, for he was destined for greatness. He grew up to be the benevolently xenophobic, compassionately despotic emperor of the ethnically pure, 100% genuinely fictional country of Wakanda. His name is T'Challa (the artist formerly known as Kangz), and he is here to chew watermelon-flavoured bubblegum and kick some deplorable ass, and he's all out of bubblegum!
Alas, if only Idiocracy played professional basketball. If only there were concentration camps for albinos. If only hillbillies were fluent in eubonics. If only we could keep crackers as slaves. If only there were bagpipes in every rap song. If only there were some less offensive words that rhyme with trigger.
Then, and only then, would our fake non-fictional world be as perfect a place to live in as the real fictional world of Wakanda!
To say that Black Panther is a mess of incongruities and contradictions would be an understatement. Not the movie itself per se, but the way it's being marketed as some kind of watershed moment for dark-skinned people worldwide. A quick glance of leftist friendly headlines and one would have little doubt that T'Challa must be the new saviour of the world, like some kind of revolutionary Black Jesus.
It's hard to imagine a person whose whole sense of being and belonging in the world is so fragile that their self-worth depends solely on identifying with a comic book character from the 60s written by a couple of white Jewish dudes. It's actually kind of sad when you think about it.
And it's not like black people don't have a plethora of real-life examples of heroes to draw inspiration from. Leaders, innovators, statesmen, activists, politicians, inventors and artists. There are even numerous examples in the world of cinema that tell heroic black stories and showcase black talent behind and in front of the camera. So, why all the hullabaloo about this particular movie and why now?
If one were conspiratorially-minded, one might think that Hollywood and the mainstream media are going out of their way to deliberately drive a wedge between different groups of people.
Whether wielding the heavy-handed club of 'intersectional feminism' to sow discord between men and women, or dangling the grisly specter of 'Islamophobia' in order to demonize anyone remotely critical of a third world religion composed of jihadi head-choppers, or in the case of the new Black Panther movie, using the identity politics of race to further divisions between arbitrary groups of people based only on something as shallow as skin color. It's almost as if the Powers That Be are fanning the flames of division on purpose, in a glaringly obvious attempt to incite an all-out race war.
And the ironic thing is that in the Black Panther movie, the country of Wakanda comes off like a weirdly utopian version of the way liberals envision Trump's America. The Black Panther rules as king. The country is conservative, anti-globalist and nationalist. Walls protect the kingdom from outside influence. Pride in your race and county of origin is emphasized. They have an isolationist immigration policy and Wakanda is a hierarchical society that's intentionally racially homogeneous.
In this review from the Daily Wire, the author generously gives the movie an 85% rating, while still pointing out that its overall theme is staunchly conservative.
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is so deeply conservative that it makes Captain America look like a washed-up neo-Marxist Berkeley grad who spends their days of unemployment shouting "speech is violence" from the rooftops at a Ben Shapiro rally.But that doesn't stop virtue-signalling progressive libtards from publishing specific "rulez" for white people to follow before seeing the movie.
When you go see it, unless you specifically came with us... Don't say shit to us. Don't comment on our outfits, don't report us to theatre management cuz we got chicken wings in our bag, don't comment on our children's behavior, whether to shame or praise... don't say shit. And if you touch our hair, we get to slap you.One of them even published a whole article about the necessity for black people to verbally shut down any white person who dares to offer even an opinion about the movie. He recommends doing this by emulating an actual scene in the movie where a character loudly grunts and barks like a gorilla until every pasty faced know-nothing learns how to shut their privileged pie-hole:
One thing, however, that we can and definitely should start doing is what M'Baku and his Que Dog Jabari Tribe did when encountering a problematic white dude who was speaking when there was no ask or need or purpose for the thoughts and opinions of problematic white dudes.Jeezus, all this fuss over a simple comic book movie.
Bark.
Not a purposeless bark. This isn't a shih tzu barking through the window at a squirrel. Instead this would be an intentional bark. A targeted bark. An overpowering bark. A drowning bark. A Wakandan bark. A bark meant to communicate "Um, who told you that you can speak? When it is time for your words, we will let you know. And maybe that time will never come. We'll see. Now, just shut up and stand there. Maybe get on your phone and google 'How not to be a colonizer.' Whatever you do, I want to hear you not speaking."
Here's a novel idea - if we are going to look to movies to provide an archetypal example of how to live our lives and operate in the world, how about we empathize and identify with the hero's ACTIONS and not only the color of their skin?
How about we put race issues aside for just a moment and judge this movie on the merits of actual film-making and storytelling, and let everyone enjoy it regardless of rigid ideological categories?
In the end, the question remains: what's the difference between Nazis on the right and Antifa on the left? Nothing, apparently. Absolutely nothing at all.
For an alternative perspective on the Black Panther movie, away from the race-baiting inflammatory mainstream media, here are some Youtube videos worthy of consideration:
Sargon of Akkad
Joe Rogan
Paul Joseph Watson
Ben Shapiro
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The movie, though not put well together in terms of storytelling touches upon some important issues
- As I said above, women feature prominently... not only in terms of screen time but also the role they play within the movie and their relationship to men (not really subordinate, not really ruling over - equal). Yes, they do perform tasks that men do but it goes further and emphasises uniquely feminine qualities like compassion and ability to nurture.
- African American self reflection - this movie I think does good things to their self esteem for different reasons. It's a movie where they are central but not necessarily in a 'white' world but in their own fictional world, wakanda. Notice this country is removed from the rest of africa even though in the comics it's located their. African Americans are not Africans. There is a HUGE gap between an african american and an African. So this movie speaks more to them and their vision than it does to a wider african or black demographic!
- Childhood woundings and how they can blind us. The main villain is a case in point... through no fault of his own, he has been turned on a course of which he can't turn himself from. On the one hand... he HATES wakanda for what it is, on the other, he needs it to achieve his aim in life. It's like a story of a kid who hates their parent for the neglect they've suffered on one hand and on the other, still need them to BE, as they can't be without them! He never reaches a resolution even when given the chance in the end.
I think out of all the marvel movies, this had more in terms of 'substance' than mere entertainment.
Also it has American military propaganda embedded which my keen eyed friend pointed out. The white CIA guy played a crucial role in saving wakanda... america features heavily in the movie in terms of it being what wakanda was being measured against with regard to its neglect of black people... I mean why not the rest of africa for example? Like its immediate neighbours...
All in all, I thought it was solid but of course not one for the oscars and to be honest, the SJW element wasn't as pathological as I thought. If anything wakanda was anti-sjw, very pro Trump politics...
And that Pink Panther... don’t get me started on PINK Privilege.
I can’t take it anymore, I’m heading to my safe space.
Jezzus people... Get Real
I am sure most of the people going to see this film understand its underpinnings and if they don't then where in lies the problem? The only people who do not understand the relevance of race in this story are those too entitled to care about truth in history and how the pendulum has started its centuries long swing in the opposite direction.
Aboriginal people around the world need stories like this because it scares the entitled whites out of their skin.
Lastly, this movie might have been 'majority' african american and directed by such BUT the mind that went into creating it is highly western/white... maybe instead of putting 'what they thought should be there' they should have done some research and utilised mythological underpinning from actual african tribes to form the basis of the fictional wakanda.... a sort of, 'what would have happened if such and such tribe with their unique mythological underpinning advanced to such and such level without western input or influence so much so that they could affect the world at such an advanced level'
Yes, at that level you would have ritual that seemed alien to us married to a level of advancement that made sense in the milieu of those ritualistic underpinnings and perhaps a society that would have been structured differently too BUT made sense in that regard. A bit like the matrix movies where things made sense within that movie as the directors and writers took the time to develop the story from the ground up. Marvel are being very lazy with their movies, rushing towards the main show of the franchise, infinity wars.
For those that don't know, Marvel are churning out all these movies which are all leading to a series of big movies where a big shot alien will land on earth and where all earth's superheroes have to team up to kick the aliens butt. Beforehand, they have to introduce the earths superheros and make it so that they aren't entirely united just before the alien touches down. This way we get more drama when the alien arrives in that the fight won't be so straight forward LOL
DC have Superman... Does that count?
I'm old. I don't care. I plan to outlive David Rockerfeller for spite. I have no "resonance" with the current crop of Supeheroes. All the Marvel characters...whether or not black, white, pink, blue, or green. I have not been to a movie since the early 1990's. I decided to avoid movie theaters when I went one afternoon to a matinee (normally the quieter time) only have a Berzerkeley dude plop down in his seat and pull out a full-course dinner with knife and fork. He ate during most of the movie. Nope. No go.
Back to my point...Superheroes, as portrayed in the current movies, do not enthrall me. The violence, massive sound effects amplifying the violence, and complete glitter (everything violent is magnified and glorified...hmmmm...I wonder why...'tis a puzzle) over violence offends me. I'm a snowflake anti-violence old person. Violence does not enthrall me.
My Superhero would be Jack Reacher. No, no, no. Not Tom Cruise. Puhhlleeeze. He's short and brainwashed. Jack Reacher (I'm an avid mystery fan.) is portrayed as 6'5" with hands like a baseball player's mitt. His reaction as a child, contrary to every other child in attendance at a movie, to a frightening monster on the screen was to lunge forward and attack. A natural fighter. Reacher has a problem with justice. He distributes his own.
Frankly, I've pondered why...why...tell me why...younger people today seem enthralled (that word again!) with these Superheroes. I'll tell you why. They may not be able to express this sentiment...because they're largely comatose from jobs, HAARP-zinging rays, stupifying smart phones, chemtrail cocktails, and Big Brother TV/movies/U.S. government propaganda...but they fee l that underlying powerlessness and want out. Yup.
To close this powerful essay, I would like to quote from a true hero...indeed... a Superhero worthy of admiration!!!
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
After BLM you started to see a resurgence in some of this militant, genuinely leftist thinking. It was quickly quashed as BLM was co-opted and washed out into another liberal, identity politics zero-sum game where the only major aim is to challenge the superficial nature of social interaction between people by generating a useless, shallow narrative (and inevitable reactionary counter-narrative) in order to distract from the real and problems of life in the US, a situation that has always affected blacks far more severely.
Divide and conquer? I suppose, but black and white America has always been divided. I grew up in Alabama and black and black and whites simply do not mix. The schools are still segregated, the parts of town are separate, the standard of living is drastically worse for blacks (though to be fair we're all in a race to the bottom now)
The new strategy, in my mind, is to distract and conquer. It seems to be working. Racism, personal and institutional, runs deep and the indignant refusal by whites to own up to it, because they don't personally feel racist, is as reliable as the sun rising. In the end, this is the establishment's ace in the sleeve.
The seven year-old in me was actually looking forward to this film. I like popcorn superhero movies.
But.., the last Marvel production was a big disappointment. -That "Ragnarok" thing where none of the characters were taking anything seriously in an endless effort to out-blase each other with sociopathic joking responses to situations which, for any rational thinking person, would have been chok-full of emotional dynamite. Bland observations of horrific events is the new hot new "comedic" commodity in Hollywood these days. Gameshow host smarm throughout, so that the viewer, (me anyway) got to feeling sea sick and dazed by the emotional dissonance. (Heck, one of the characters actually WAS a gameshow host. So maybe it was good acting..?)
Whatever.
It sucked. I can't relate to smarmy, violent psychos and watching them for two hours makes my brain feel like mush, (which is probably an accelerated version of the process of ponerization as described by Lobaczewski). -On the plus side, however, if you can stand to have your brain battered by madness, Marvel Studios offered with its film perhaps an accurate two-hour portrayal of what the psychopath's ideal world as projected from the inside of its skull might look and feel like. Chaos, sensory numbness and deadened emotional range.
This trend started in earnest with that "Guardians of the Galaxy" film. -The first just gave hints of the vacuum behind the mask, and it was sort of amusing to see people so cool and experienced that even extreme levels of danger failed to phase them.., but in the second film it was taken to such extravagant heights of, "What is WRONG with these people?" that even the script authors recognized they were perhaps letting the mask of sanity slip a bit too far. In an effort to rectify the situation, they made a series of over-exaggerated gestures, injecting nauseating pantomimes of what the psychopathic mind must think real human pathos looks like into seemingly randomly chosen story segments. The effect was jarring and surreal.
Yeah, so realizing that this is the level Marvel has slipped to in its productions is quite enough for me, thanks.
-Add to that the insane spiritual propaganda shitfest the media and Twitter-verse is pouring all over this movie with its barely disguised colour revolution fodder, and any enthusiasm I was feeling a couple of months ago hasn't just evaporated, but rather morphed into a severe desire to avoid this stew pile at all cost.
Sorry, seven year-old self. Psychopaths ruined Fun along with everything else.
I doubt if 'The Black Panther' has all that much more asinine evil message-y bullshit content than 'Iron Man', or 'X Men Forever'. The former I watched 'cause they showed it at the beach in Greece. The latter I clocked part of, 'cause I was in it as a KGB general. Apart from that, I never watch this kind of overblown self-important pretentious Hollywood garbage. I'll watch Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish films whatever. I won't watch any American crap. No Canadian bollocks or Brit shit either, and I certainly ain't going to get drawn into no black/white sinkhole over 'The Black Panther'.
With respect to people’s self-worth depending solely on identifying with a comic book character, I wonder who has been analyzing the effectiveness of ‘white’ - Captain America, Iron Man, Spider Man, Thor, etc - on the people, regardless of color?
Black Jesus? Hell, there has been no historical evidence for a Jesus, of any color. Yahshua, son of Yahweh, (both Ethiopians) has been turned into the white Jesus that was lied into existence to control the world. That holds true for the characters of the bible who were all turned ‘white’, in order to support the lies of White Supremacy.
If the response of Afruikans to Black Panther seems a pathetic fallacy, it is purely an effective indication of the suffering Afruikans have been experiencing, especially in America, for almost 500 years.
It will takes volumes to not only describe ‘suffering’, but place in the most appropriate context. That therefore demands a different road.
Shalom