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The other issue that arose in

rmrd0000 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:02:23 +0000

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The other issue that arose in the comic book series was if such an advanced society needed a king.

Well, if your young ones

barefooted — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:46:21 +0000

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Well, if your young ones ended up with exceptional rhythm you might have your answer. ;-) Simply lovely.

Fascinating. (This being just

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:43:45 +0000

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Fascinating. (This being just one among the multitude of things about which I am completely clueless--trying to educate myself), Young Amandla is impressive.

Here is a revealling piece

rmrd0000 — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:39:51 +0000

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Here is a revealling piece about the complexity of the Black Panther movie. Amanda Stenberg, a biracial actress, wanted to be in the movie but didn’t fight for the part because her skin color didn’t fit in with the Africans depicted in the movie. It is likely that she would have been up for the role of T’challa’s sister. Stenberg played Rue in the first Hunger Games movie

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/5-things-you-should-probably-know-about-amandla-stenberg-1.4549677

Haven’t been to the

rmrd0000 — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:17:23 +0000

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Haven’t been to the barbershop to see what is available (smile)

I do have it pre-ordered on Amazon Video

Here is an argument that Killmonger was right in destroying oppressors.

http://www.pulse.ng/communities/bloggers/black-panther-killmonger-was-right-id8035119.html

Killmonger’s death robbed us of an opportunity to see a merger of Killmonger’s rage and T’challa’s compassion. The real world version would have been a combining of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, or Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Killmonger wanted to exact revenge. Killmonger would have objected a craft piloted by a white pilot shooting down the drones headed to attack the colonizers.

Drezner's characterization:

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:51:55 +0000

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Drezner's characterization:

The plot is driven by a contender to the throne who wants to use Wakanda’s technology to create a vast empire upon which “the sun will never set.”

Hmmm....perhaps a review of the videotape could be helpful in resolving the differing interpretations here. At least one person at dag actually has the DVD--you, rmrd0000, right?

Killmonger’s foreign policy

rmrd0000 — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:41:25 +0000

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Killmonger’s foreign policy was to destroy the colonizers.

"The foreign policy of 'Black

AmericanDreamer — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:25:45 +0000

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"The foreign policy of 'Black Panther'", Daniel Drezner (professor of international relations at Tufts University and a resident scholar at the Brookings Institution), WaPo today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/02/28/a-very-...

(WARNING: PLOT SPOILERS)

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I particularly enjoyed it because foreign policy questions were at the crux of the film’s plot. To sum up: Wakanda is a technologically sophisticated country that has pursued a grand strategy of isolationism. It purposefully shields knowledge about its power and capabilities from the outside world, exploiting stereotypes and prejudices about sub-Saharan Africa to sustain its subterfuge. At the start of the film, many of Wakanda’s power brokers are fine with this, though some have their doubts.

The plot is driven by a contender to the throne who wants to use Wakanda’s technology to create a vast empire upon which “the sun will never set.” This expansionist policy is rejected, but by the end of the film there is a change in the country’s grand strategy. In one of the closing scenes, Wakanda’s leader T’Challa announces at the United Nations that the country will share its technology with the rest of the world.

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Louis Gossett Jr. said that

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:55:04 +0000

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Louis Gossett Jr. said that his role in An Officer and a Gentleman was written for a white actor. That was the exception to the rules. For the foreseeable future, there will be protests if a white actor takes a black role. There is little trust in the Hollywood system.

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PeraclesPlease — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:52:29 +0000

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