Black Panther on Track to be Most Racist Movie Against Blacks this Year
Isaach De Bankole who fought Daniel Craig in the James Bond movie Casino Royale, sports the primitive body mutilation ornament favored by African tribes and plays an "elder of one of the largest tribes in Wakanda."
Hollywood, CA - It has been touted by critics as a "coming of age" movie for blacks, who have been defined on the silver screen by caricature and stereotypes. Marvel's movie Black Panther is looking set to make box office history this month as it opens in theaters across the country - a movie set in a post-modern futuristic world ruled by black kings and queens in "Wakanda," a fictional modern African world, where the black superhero Black Panther is from. But despite seeming on the surface to be commentary on blacks and their role in modern society and how they have risen up, the movie through and through still falls back on racist stereotypes of blacks.
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To begin with, Wakanda, is touted as a mysterious modern world, where blacks rule but is akin to the lost city of Atlantis - everyone's heard about it, but no one has seen it. In so many ways, art imitates life. The fact that Wakanda is fiction to begin with is telling. In the modern world, Africa continues to suffer from Third World diseases which the rest of the world has shaken off, it continues to suffer one of the world's lowest human development indexes despite being abundant in natural resources and continues to be plagued by civil war, strife and disease. Instead of the Utopian "Wakanda" depicted in the movie, there is nothing modern about present day Africa at all, it is for all intents and purposes as described by President Donald Trump - a "shithole." Africa today, remains mired in the same problems that it has for the past millennia...