United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[DavidCroquet]

As with anyone who can be credited for anything, his achievements can be traced back to Nepenthe, who is the ur-accomplisher of all things.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-film-takes.1193541/page-4#post-140205984

I don't think Wakanda is meant to represent modern Africa because fundamentally its technological trajectory is so advanced even beyond the modern West, and its history is devoid of the colonialism and underdevelopment plaguing modern Africa today (which is the appeal; it's a "what could have been?") that it's not meaningfully comparable. I also wouldn't really argue that Wakanda lacked internal strife; that's what the whole battle ceremony was all about, and Daniel Kaluuya's character was sheisty even before Kilmonger showed up.

The issue is pretty blatant: Wakanda knew what was going on with colonialism and literally did fuck all about it, and they are framed as the bad guys for doing nothing about it instead of, you know, the fucking whites who did the colonizing. It leans into feelings of alienation and "being an island" for the Black diasporas. It also lets whites off the hook because, hey, a white moviegoers' money is as green as anyone else's and we can't chase them off by rightfully blaming their ancestors for the shit they did.

But, again, this is ahistorical because the idea of a shared Blackness, a shared oppression, didn't really exist in Africa during colonialism, and in many ways and contexts it still doesn't (although I'm invested into Pan Africanism as a movement regardless.) You were part of your community and if you had some fucking asshole from another community as a prisoner of war, why the fuck not sell him into slavery, especially to protect your own? Sucks to suck; don't run up on my community.

Black Americans in particular are largely taught (by whites) that Africans "sold out their own," which engenders an animosity and spitefulness towards the Motherland that is both indicative of Kilmonger's fury and a bulwark against true African consciousness and solidarity in the wake of modern sociopolitical dynamics, but again it fundamentally doesn't make sense the moment you are able to conceive of Africa as a continent with literally thousands of different cultures who for most of their existence had no need to unite under a banner of skin color, because racism and thus our current understanding of race are specific social constructs that only came to exist to justify colonialism and divide the proletariat.