RJ_Sizzle said:
contestgamer said:
Obviously not only black people saw this, a lot of white people suffer from a sense of white guilt as well that were tweeting this movie when it launched, encouraging people to go see it as if it were some major cultural moment. The issue isnt the character - the issue is that the movie was openly advertised and applauded for having a purposefully all black cast and crew. You could not get away with that if it were white. The NBA is mostly black, but it's incidental - that's fine. If the NBA advertised itself as being all black and not primarily black then it would be the same problem.
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I don't think Marvel marketed it like that. Other people blew it up to a cultural phenomenon. And so what? Sometimes movies are zeitgeists. What have you lost from this movie being a hit?
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Equality. Because society now accepts one group doing something that another group cannot. I cannot make an all white movie (purposefully, not incidentally) without being outcast (fair enough), and so I have lost equality to another group that can make a movie that is all purposefully black cast. (not fair enough)
In fighting for equality we're creating inequalities.
