If anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane. Here is an article I wrote about Captain America:Civil War and it’s black heroes a few years ago
Hiiipower: the three i’s represent heart, honor and respect. That’s how we carry ourselves in the world, period. Hiiipower, it basically is the simplest form of representing just being above all the madness, all the bullshyt. No matter what the world is going through, you’re always going to keep your dignity and carry yourself with this manner that it don’t phase you. Whatever you think negative is in your life. Overcoming that and still having that self-respect.
—Kendrick Lamar
THE CONCEPT OF BLACK HEROISM IN MAINSTREAM AMERICAN CINEMA has had a long, complex, and rather disappointing history. Often times, the “token” character of color within the genre of superhero films exists to serve one of two purposes: as comic relief or the “good friend” (servant) of the main protagonist on their own path towards victory. 1998’s
Blade, starring Wesley Snipes, helped to establish a cunning, determined, and undeniably masculine and capable black hero within a world where only he possesses the capabilities to defeat vampiric entities hell bent on conquering the world. That film went onto gross more than $131.2 million worldwide, was considered a huge financial success, and spawned two more sequels. Ten years later, Will Smith’s film
Hancock, about a troubled amnesiac superhero struggling to rediscover his own sense of valor, grossed more than $620 million worldwide.
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Black Heroism in Captain America: Civil War — Abernathy
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