#sir!

Bringing this back.

And how Sam just found out there’s a Black super soldier who was tortured and imprisoned for 30 years, and then shortly after that he’s racially profiled by a trigger happy cop, and then John Walker shows up to rub the shield in his face, and then he’s dragged into a therapy session where the best friend of the man Sam trusted and worshiped so much he went on the run for him, became a war criminal for him (and Bucky) tells him that Steve was probably wrong to have placed trust in him, that he was probably as worthless as society has deemed him to be seemingly just for daring to exist.

Sometimes I think about that, and how so many people til today stay mad at Sam for not offering empathy to Bucky in that moment, because clearly Bucky was having a meltdown and Sam needed to show support.

Like, four whole years later, I still get that narrative randomly popping up!

Like, I don’t think Sam is perfect. But expecting the man to put aside his own feelings for Bucky in that moment is just staggering to me, in terms of the expectations we have for how Black characters should behave towards white ones without getting tarred and feathered.

Anyway I love those two doofuses, and Sam definitely loves Bucky so I have let things go, but sometimes I think this will be my villain origin story.

Sir! Feb 1961

(Source: anaalimaar on Tiktok)