Michael B Jordan: "We don't have any Black mythology or Folklore"

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I want to root for this kid but every time he opens his damn mouth he’s either pandering or talking foolishness.

It ain’t that fukking deep

 

[KneeGrow.]

Bâstardizing our struggle (I assume you're Black) to use as a vessel for his ego to prey on weak, impressionable minds; splashing in water that's the depth of a puddle, and acting like it's as deep as the ocean, is most certainly mythology indeed.

Nah bro it's just a story.

 

[kingofnyc]

fukk IT

imma go with Catcher Freeman is our
mythological figure

 

[Jean toomer]

It ain’t that fukking deep

Thank you for clarifying. Move on.

 

[xoxodede]

We have THOUSANDS of AA folklore stories. You can literally go on any Southern state archive website - and read AA Folklore from our ancestors enslavement to Reconstruction to Jim Crow.

I love to read about Alabama AA Folklore cause that is where my family is from and was enslaved: Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections

Folklore is deeply rooted in our culture.

American Negro folklore : Brewer, John Mason, 1896-1975, comp : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
African American folklore : Currie, Stephen, 1960- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Talk that talk : an anthology of African-American storytelling : Goss, Linda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction : Sundquist, Eric J : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Some of my faves:
The Conjure Woman: The conjure woman : Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The People Could Fly (1985) - or anything by Mrs. Hamilton: Internet Archive Search: creator:"Virginia Hamilton"

The Knee High Man:
The knee-high man : Miller, William, 1959- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Of course, Ms. Hurston (Zora): https://archive.org/search.php?query=zora neale


I can go on and on... but won't.

 

[R=G]

Hmmmm..the reaction to this on twitter wasnt good.

 

[SunZoo]

Lupe Fiasco's The Cool should be adapted into a movie, no bullshyt.

The Cool

The Game

The Streets

 

[Dad]

 

[PikaDaDon]

What makes it hilarious is that all of European mythology/folklore was stolen from African and Indian mythology/folklore.

I...I actually liked that movie.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

 

[xoxodede]

And who doesn't know John Henry...

 

[Easy-E]

Already knew there would be Twitta-lash

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Nah bro it's just a story.

The fact you reached for that off the shelf, first, speaks volumes.

 

[Black Bruce Wayne]

He probably just didnt know any better it's not this deep

 

[ORDER_66]

These dudes kill me with counterpoints like this...

But we haven't...