>>>Sinjection1
Well, it's obvious that the current stable of writers at MARVEL know absolutely nothing about African American relationships dealing with love.
What these writers do seem familiar with is interracial relationships.
Do they (these writers), truly seem familiar with interracial relationships...or are they more comfortable portraying such relationships because there is at least one white character - a character in their comfort zone - they can cling to? Maybe these writers feel that black-on-black violence sells, but black love repels.
combo of all 3. great eye, brutha
And what hurts the most, is that there are still some amongst us who stay making endless excuses for what can only be described as being a sustained resistance to the portrayal of Black on Black heterosexual love within the 616 MU.
You get every single variation on love in the MU other than Black-on-Black but some amongst stay championing the X-office as being dedicated to diversity.
What a joke. :smh:
Now, Brothers...here is what we're dealing with:
Nezhno/Gentle --- revealed to be the biracial offspring of a Russian father and a Wakandan mother. The Russian father is nowhere to be found. The Wakandan mother and the Wakandan people reject Nezhno leaving that character no choice but to return to the only "family" he'd ever known...those mutants.
Kraven The Hunter --- another Russian who leaves his native land, migrates to Africa where he discovers a talent for big game hunting, a Congolese "witch doctor's" formula for enhancing his strength and abilities, and a lust for black women. He seeds the continent like some bizarro Johnny Appleseed. He meets Calypso and they have some sort of "wicked attraction" wherein Kraven feels he must destroy Spider-Man to secure Calypso's love, a love he is already assured of as Calypso is already smitten...but she still goads him time and again into attacking Spider-Man.
Mandrill --- the white male mutant born into a mandrill ape's body and given the power to attract women with his pheremones, teams up with the albino black female mutant Nekra. They wind their way to Africa where Mandrill uses his powers to seduce black women into painting their faces to resemble mandrills becoming in effect his combination "harem/army".
But when it comes to creating meaningful relationships between a so-called black male character and a so-called black female character...they simply can't bring themselves to do it. The company held its nose and allowed R. Hudlin the opportunity to attempt to create such a relationship between two of its flagship so-called black characters and we see how that turned out.
I heard someone say "Fair is a place where they judge pigs." If we are looking for fairness, for justice...for common courtesy where the black fan's expectations might be attended to, we are looking to the wrong company. If we're not careful they'll hook up T'Challa with one of their white beauties...a "gem" of a character with a name to match.
The next Marriage of the Century will feature the groom: T'Challa, the Black Panther and the lovely reformed Alpha Flight criminal herself...Pink Pearl.
Don't you believe for one minute they won't do it.
