[dropcap]Black[/dropcap] Panther is the bomb. I mean that it was both superfly and it has blown open conversations that we have carefully avoided. To get the obvious stuff out of the way: Yes, it was visually stunning. No, I did not like the rabid cultural mishmash representation of “Africa” via Wakanda. Yes, it is a fictional setting, so there’s artistic license, but, also, why is it that the only non-African who managed their accent was Andy Serkis? For shame, Forest. For shame. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
So let’s talk about the big issues. Let me just present you with my controversial perspective early on so you can decide if you are going to keep reading.
This is a movie set in “Africa” about imagined Africans and imagined African-Americans, so you probably think it’s about “blackness” (whatever that even is). It isn’t. It is a movie about a lot of things, and rather nicely set in Afrofuturism, but we’re not going to talk directly about that colonial and post-colonial drama today. We’re going to talk about rage.
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