Maybe my brain is a bit too pessimistic but am I the only one that is sometimes troubled by how certain parts of the media embrace black culture.
I'm not talking about institutional racism. What I mean is, even when the media is RT'ing a photo of Janelle Monea or Lupita Nyongo, there's this feel of tokenism and/or objectification.
“Here's this wonderful black thing that we love. Look at how progressive we are.”
I laud that these actors are being celebrated, but...
It's probably another reason why Rule #1 of Mastodon is: DO NOT FOLLOW ANY MEDIA/NEWS/BRANDS.
I'm just tired of this kind of shit.
And I'm absolutely excited for #BlackPanther. As a PoC, I'm all about seeing more representation on larger screens.
But this frenzy around Black Panther has a very "othering" and "tokenism" feel to it.
Yes it's a bad ass film. But you know what, it's also sad that it took this fucking long to get a black super hero.
