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A black superhero arrived in Africa over the weekend — inspiring pride, tears of joy and a swift rebuke to President Trump’s crude comments about the continent. The sure-to-be blockbuster from Marvel generated enthusiastic responses from communities from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa that are often stereotypically represented on the big screen. The film, with its almost entirely black cast and a young African-American director, received rave reviews after its stars walked the red carpet at a premiere in South Africa on Friday.
Black Panther has burst onto the screen in Africa, handing a powerful response to the unfortunate remarks about the continent by President Donald Trump.
As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local Xhosa language used in the film's fictional Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the U.S. president's views, which several African nations have openly scorned.
When you have to find pride in a fantasy film, there's something off about your continent.
White people "have to find pride" in a 74 year-old man-child with the sensitivity of a pre-pubescent school girl, the temperament of a newborn, and the intellect of a toddler. Also, shitty country music.
Seriously, after white identity in North America culminated in the electing of the single most incompetent and embarrassing figure in American political history, you all can shut the fuck up about black people being happy to finally feel represented in popular culture instead of being portrayed as criminals, derelicts, and lust-crazed tropes.
you all can shut the fuck up about black people being happy to finally feel represented in popular culture instead of being portrayed as criminals, derelicts, and lust-crazed tropes.
Western civilizations ushered the Renaissance, Age of Sail, Age of Enlightenment, Space Exploration and Digital Age. Africa is still, well, Africa. Are you sure it's "white identity" that brought Donald Trump to office instead of years of dissatisfaction with the status quo establishment?
When you have to find pride in a fantasy film, there's something off about your continent. It's a very entertaining and visually beautiful movie, yet not exactly befitting of social and political reality in Africa. I fully agree that Donald Trump is both petty and vulgar, but was his "shithole" comment so off the mark that people need to rebuke it with a fictional movie?
Or am I just being a party pooper?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/african-viewers-marvel-pride-black-panther-article-1.3827191
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/black-panther-opens-africa-1.4540610
Are they not factual? History doesn't care about your feelings. It simply is what it is.Oh Sherfront
When you have to find pride in a fantasy film, there's something off about your continent. It's a very entertaining and visually beautiful movie, yet not exactly befitting of social and political reality in Africa. I fully agree that Donald Trump is both petty and vulgar, but was his "shithole" comment so off the mark that people need to rebuke it with a fictional movie?
Some African countries were using Trump's comment as a tourism selling point, asking people to come visit their 'shitholes'.When you have to find pride in a fantasy film, there's something off about your continent. It's a very entertaining and visually beautiful movie, yet not exactly befitting of social and political reality in Africa. I fully agree that Donald Trump is both petty and vulgar, but was his "shithole" comment so off the mark that people need to rebuke it with a fictional movie?
Or am I just being a party pooper?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/african-viewers-marvel-pride-black-panther-article-1.3827191
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/black-panther-opens-africa-1.4540610
Are they not factual? History doesn't care about your feelings. It simply is what it is.
lawlz. Everytime i see a thread about Greece and it's economic state you should see the amount of flaming that goes on in there. How do you feel about virtue signalling when it's white on white criticism?Oh Sherfront
idk about the politics or even the movie but the soundtrack is flames