I used to collect and read some of the Black Panther comics in the 80's. I don't remember them being full of racist and historically fictitious diatribe, which is basically what this movie is. I wanted to like it, I really did, but it's just kind of pathetic. The movie keeps harping on the ideas that Africa would somehow be a world leader, if not for the evil white colonialists, as if anyone in their right mind actually believes that. The villain makes comments about how everything was stolen from Africa by a white women's "ancestors". The uncle says how the black people of planet earth are "unfairly" policed and incarcerated..i.e. "Dundu Nuffin". The black sister calls the white CIA agent a "colonizer", as if he is somehow responsible for the actions of people hundreds, if not thousands, of years before he was born. The most hypocritical line in the movie then follows, when the wife of Black Panther tells him "you can't let your fathers mistakes define who you are"...yet this whole movie tries to define all of the white characters as "oppressors" and "colonizers", because of what their ancestors supposedly did. So why doesn't Wakanda use their special mineral to take over the world? Because they are peaceful and respectful people, and it's not their way....as if Africa is not a war torn continent that has been murdering and enslaving it's own people for the entirety of written history. This movie is nothing but a trite and disappointing political smear job from start to finish. Sad.
Review of Black Panther
