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Wakanda is interesting for a few reasons with regards to its politics.
1. firstly it’s a monarchy, and even has the masculine tradition of duels for the throne. Criticizing black masculinity doesn’t seem to be apart of modern intersectionalism. Or if it is, its a very rare target.
2. It’s very much a stratified society. There’s a monarchy and a collection of what amounts to nobles and tribes which have traditional leadership.
3. Thirdly-and this is the odd thing. Wakanda is uber advanced yet it didn’t do anything for the world, much less Africa and the African diaspora. We are led to believe it is so isolationist it didn’t intervene against the slave trade-either from Europeans or Arabs. It didn’t intervene to stop European imperialism, it didn’t intervene in more recent times to stop the Chinese(given the movie takes place in the modern day). It didn’t conquer the world despite possessing the resources to do so.
4. Killmonger while a bit of an Afrocentrist with a strong animosity towards the oppression of his people-this in the movie is Europeans, and Americans. But it doesn’t explicitly say so. But leads the viewer to assume his animus is towards the European or white population. He does have a point in that Wakanda could very easily rule the world. Or at least protect Africans worldwide. I forgot what his plan was but yeah.
5. Anyway Black Panther at the end of the movie goes to a black neighborhood in the USA-with the kids admiring his super tech ship. Which...? What is he trying to do? Like it’s supposed to give the viewer warm fuzzy feelings that the poverty, social ills, and suffering is going to be solved but the movie fails to explain how his more open policy intends to achieve this.
Wakanda is supposedly enlightened yet doesn’t intervene either for the world or Africa? And his plan is to show off tech?
Is the tech at the end of the movie made available for the whole world? Or what?
I find the premise absurd. Not as much for the politics, but due the fact that if Wakanda had the tech it did for as long the movie said it did, somehow in contrivance to all of human history and nature it wouldn’t take over the world.
Also it didn’t look honestly like the common people of Wakanda lived some sort of utopian lifestyle.
1. firstly it’s a monarchy, and even has the masculine tradition of duels for the throne. Criticizing black masculinity doesn’t seem to be apart of modern intersectionalism. Or if it is, its a very rare target.
2. It’s very much a stratified society. There’s a monarchy and a collection of what amounts to nobles and tribes which have traditional leadership.
3. Thirdly-and this is the odd thing. Wakanda is uber advanced yet it didn’t do anything for the world, much less Africa and the African diaspora. We are led to believe it is so isolationist it didn’t intervene against the slave trade-either from Europeans or Arabs. It didn’t intervene to stop European imperialism, it didn’t intervene in more recent times to stop the Chinese(given the movie takes place in the modern day). It didn’t conquer the world despite possessing the resources to do so.
4. Killmonger while a bit of an Afrocentrist with a strong animosity towards the oppression of his people-this in the movie is Europeans, and Americans. But it doesn’t explicitly say so. But leads the viewer to assume his animus is towards the European or white population. He does have a point in that Wakanda could very easily rule the world. Or at least protect Africans worldwide. I forgot what his plan was but yeah.
5. Anyway Black Panther at the end of the movie goes to a black neighborhood in the USA-with the kids admiring his super tech ship. Which...? What is he trying to do? Like it’s supposed to give the viewer warm fuzzy feelings that the poverty, social ills, and suffering is going to be solved but the movie fails to explain how his more open policy intends to achieve this.
Wakanda is supposedly enlightened yet doesn’t intervene either for the world or Africa? And his plan is to show off tech?
Is the tech at the end of the movie made available for the whole world? Or what?
I find the premise absurd. Not as much for the politics, but due the fact that if Wakanda had the tech it did for as long the movie said it did, somehow in contrivance to all of human history and nature it wouldn’t take over the world.
Also it didn’t look honestly like the common people of Wakanda lived some sort of utopian lifestyle.