Subj : The Birth of a Nation (1915)
To   : Arelor
From : MRO
Date : Mon Oct 24 2022 04:13 pm

 Re: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
 By: Arelor to MRO on Mon Oct 24 2022 12:51 pm

>
>  > you didn't like black panther?
>  > i liked it. except for the stupid colonizer shit
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> I didn't like Black Panther precisely because the colonizer shit was too
> heavy to be overpassed by all the other merits the film had (which it did).
>
> The premise of the film was that a black country had managed to survive and
> maintain its supremacy and cultural integrity by denying entrance to
> foreigners. If you reversed the premise and the film was about a  white
> country that had managed to survive the cultural slaughter from blacks by
> denying them access, it would have been labeled as a racist as fuck film,


it didn't deny entrance; they hid their country. it was the most advanced nation on the planet.  they had the vibranium and kept it to themselves.

in the comics they are now an intergalactic empire.

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