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insane take on Ta-Nehisi Coate's book (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm still mad they kept the weird "We pick kings through ritual combat" angle

Which, you know, making the technologically advanced nation governmentally regressive is still really racist

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago

Liberals have no understanding of the coupling between productive forces and social organization.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Let's be honest, if they didn't do that they would've made the African king picked through a western-style bourgeois liberal democracy, which would've been worse lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So, the fun thing about it is that in the comics, there is a story arc where M'Baku (at the time, still using the moniker of the Man-Ape, which... yeah) is the one who manages to fight King T'Chaka and kill him to assume the role of King of Wakanda

This story arc was considered so out-of-touch and racist, that Marvel immediately went out of their way to hire a series of Black authors to helm the title

Some of them went out of their way to establish Wakandan politics as being more of a Council Democracy where the 12 tribes of Wakanda voted for their tribal leader and then the tribal leaders voted for the King

The position of King was essentially just picking the Black Panther (Wakanda's strongest protector) and representing Wakanda on the world stage

To see them deliberately going back to ritual combat is definitely Disney making a Statement

Especially with the sequel where they tried to force a similar thing with making Atlantis a mish-mash of Pre-Columbian cultures and saying that Namor's name came from the conquistadors saying "No Amor" which, what the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Idk about this cause the ritual combat thing has come back frequently in recent history including during the Reginald Hudlin run, which has informed most contemporary takes on the character, and in some of the cartoons as well like Avengers: EMH.

I will say I like what Coogler did with Man-Ape, made him a much more balanced and nuanced character.