#afromation

Black owned indy comics have been creating stories with pan-African cultures ( mixed from different African ethnic group sources) regularly since the 70s, irregularly since the 40s. Independant Black authouts have been doing the same since the late 1800s. AND yet you fool ass kneegrows are showing $upport only NOW that a white/jewish owned company (Disney/marvel) is scratching the surface of these types of sci-fi & fantasy stories with a Black cast?!

Do you want to imagine (and then manifest) a positive future for all African people globally, or do you want white approval of us being ourselves (but only in the way white people imagined us.) ? Because we can't have it both ways.

We have nothing to prove to them. Support indy Black owned novelests and comic publishers. So we can get so large as to hire our own to manufacture, distribute & sell merch, do the visual fx and every other aspect of a film that goes on behind the $cenes. As the actors in Black Panther have stated "there are tons of white people working on the movie behind the scenes". The VFX studio is white, the merchandise companies are white.

why are we jumping for joy as if we did not know Black people could direct a film? Melvin Van Peebles has proved it decades ago, Oscar Millieux did it over a century ago, Osmane Sembene has MASTERED it as well. We know we can direct, act, & make film soundtracks. What matters is who created the original concept? who will profit from that intellectual property?

Melvin went through the same thing with Shaft. The media pushed Shaft as a Black movie, but it was created and owned by white studios. There was just a Black protagonist (who was an afterthought btw. he was originally supposed to be white). Meanwhile the same media shittalked Sweet SweetBacks Baaadass Song. A film that by Melvin's standard had atleast an 80% Black staff BEHIND the camera. In addition to the majority of Black actors. It's clear that our standards for what is progress have greatly fallen. 😓😟😧