Thank you for all the updates Brother Ture! I will never see this film for many of the reasons you’ve iterated. Additionally, I am sick of the fascination with fatalism that these young creatives seem to revere. Fictional heroes should transcend mortality, especially when it comes to the imbalance of representation by characters who look like us. The emotional overreaction of the cast and crew that allowed them to co-sign the decision to kill off T’Challa is actually causing a schism in the Black community as those of us who find the decision untenable are being accused of everything from misogyny to infantilism to being “anti-woke” when most have only asked that they not kill off who for many of us is the first superhero we encountered that looked like us. A hero whose adventures we’ve followed for decades and hoped to see more of on the silver screen. No disrespect to Chadwick Boseman, who’s loss I mourned two years ago, T’Challa is a larger than life, iconic character who did not need to die for a third time in less than 3 MCU appearances. I believe Chadwick would feel so too from what I’ve seen and heard of his reverence for the character and the fans. What Coogler, Moore, Feige and Marvel have done is turn T’Challa into a joke who will be remembered, if at all for dying and all for their ill-conceived desire to turn Wakanda into Black Themyscira while swapping an historic Black male icon for a newly minted Mexican male idol and revenue stream. Why is their only room for one minority male monarch in the MCU? They were set to have positive Black representation for Black boys and girls to witness the power of strong male and female heroes working together, but decided instead to take the opportunity mitigate costs and eliminate a strong Black unencumbered male character, dishonoring the work Chadwick put in and snubbing their noses at true fans of T’Challa, son of T’Chaka and N’Yami, King of Wakanda.
No peace,
Mont
