Damn straight it says a lot. The idea that black-led films can only be culturally important if they're focused on our pain and struggle is disgusting. I'm glad this movie came along to say "Not every movie about us has to revolve around that."
Watching this gif multiple times just shows how there were three cuts for a single handshake lol That's just silly!Didn't need a scoreboard to tell me that
I know it in my heart
Why do you feel, first, that this thread is somehow indicative of black Americans relying on Black Panther for our identity. Elaborate here. And secondly, what about this thread and its responses make you believe black people are exclusively seeing the film because of its cast and cultural significance and not, like our white countrymen, because it's also a great movie?
There was an "if". I usually don't think things are that black & white (no pun intended).
Black Americans see their own personal struggles, philosophical takes, and culture being done justice in a wide-reaching blockbuster fantasy setting that everyone can enjoy, and such media representation is going to go a long way in establishing precedent for the competency of black actors and filmmakers, as well as general empathy towards real black struggles on part of white people when they watch it. It is a small part of racial progress, but a part of it nonetheless.
Black Panther's cultural impact doesn't have to do with the 'state of the country.' The true 'state of the country,' is that we're at the result of centuries of atrocities and severe oppression based on skin color. Black Panther marks the revolution from a previous state where black Americans were stripped of, and lived without, much of their cultural identity and representation for centuries at the hands of their oppressors.
Fine, still something like a black president seems more important to me. And I believe and hope most people in your country take black panther as something natural like we do over here.
Do you honestly think black people think Obama was less important than Black Panther just because we're excited for the film for the things it does? We're not idiots; why even bring him up????
Racists aren't a vocal minority in America. If you lived here you'd probably know that.
Why do you think black people are placing their hopes in Black Panther to change the country's sociopolitical reality?
Silly blacks being excited for a superhero movie I don't care for. Let me, as a German, tell you what you should really be focused on if you want to fix your troubles, despite not being able to read a two-paragraph OP.
So if this isn't the biggest event in a black person's life they can't be excited about it? Black people can't be excited about anything until it tops Obama becoming president? I'm pretty sure Germans get excited about the Olympics, does that mean your country is in a sad state because of it?
I'll only speak for myself, but I was talking about your own comments in this thread.
Yeah probably, but your country now seem even so much stranger that I literally stopped understanding what you all are telling me. It is obvious I have so little understanding of your culture any further discussion would just be fruitless.
Well you came in the thread and said America must be in a sad state of affairs due to the reception of this movie and how black people are positively impacted by it. You then made an outside comparison to President Obama as something black people should be excited so.
If it was a "DC superhero movie" with Batman would you have the same reaction?
