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In case you've missed the entire 'Black Panther only for black kids' debate, here it is. When the Marvel superhero movie was released in January, it was both a major commercial success and a cultural event for many people. After all, it featured a predominantly black cast, borrowed heavily from African cultures for its setting and its core conflict was about how to best deal with the toxic legacy of black slavery and racism in the US.
But for some people the flick's popularity posed a very peculiar question - is it appropriate for parents of white children to allow them to wear a Black Panther costume for Halloween. Not a simple question to answer in a country, where questioning the blackface taboo can cost a career. For what it's worth, some of the character's creators said, hell, yes, let the kids have fun.
So here comes Halloween, and Mark Dice, a popular conservative video blogger decides it's time to do some trolling of retail chains selling Black Panther costumes. Nothing spells trouble for a business as a specter of an angry mob of social justice warriors demanding to stop cultural appropriation of Wakanda. Dice faked an outrage campaign over Target, the second-biggest retailers in America.
And apparently his trolling worked. At least now Dice gloats about fooling the network into having only black models wearing Black Panther costumes...
...and is trying to bait Walmart into doing the same thing. At the moment of the writing, Walmart's product page remained unchanged.
RT has requested Target Corporation for comments about Dice's claim.
Reader Comments
In the oppression Olympics a non white person is allowed to do anything, dress as Abe Lincoln etc yet a white child may not dress as Tonto because of "appropriation" .
Dice is pointing out that all racism is bad & if all men are created equal then we are free to interchange action not favor one over another.
A white child seeing a positive black role model & wishing to emulate is equality - yet the Liberal types malfunction because of the narrative that whites oppress everyone else.
I was just addressing the phrase trolling. Trolling is usual to point out hypocrisy (however, it can be done for ill intentions) not just to follow the same tune as liberal virtue signalers. What Dice did was no different than that what some liberal would have done had they caught the ad first.
Role models are just that, a role model and it is good for kids especially if they do not have one at home. I mean, my son loves the football player Ronaldo, if he wears a Juventis #7, is it appropriate? /sarcasm/
Again, I agree with you, but this world (at least the US) needs an asteroid badly.
Jeezus, what a lot of brainwashed Oprah-jargonated toxic head-waffle.
If people stopped concentrating and attempting one way or the other to capitalise on this race-race-race, culture-culture-culture crate-sh*te, the world of sane people would have a much clearer desk from which to work.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. - W B Yeats 1921
And I see that there are those who are filled with passionate intensity . . .