Tag: Black Panther

fyeahmarvel:

Through the ages, purple has always been associated with royalty, nobility, prestige, mystery, magic, power and luxury. Purple is often used to portray rich powerful kings, leaders, magicians and even sorcerers. The colour purple relates to the world of imagination and the need to escape the practical and everyday life. It’s the daydreamers escape from reality, it assists those seeking the meaning of life and spiritual fulfilment. (x)

christel-thoughts:

Black Panther made it very clear that white Hollywood just doesn’t know how to write a female warrior in love.

Okoye loved a man too, but her story wasn’t ABOUT him.

  • He didn’t have to teach her a damn thing
  • She didn’t give anything up for him.
  • She didn’t go evil for a quick second and go on a rampage, losing herself, because she lost him.
  • She didn’t entertain, for even a miliisecond, compromising herself for him
  • She wasn’t crying over him
  • Their relationship wasn’t shoehorned in for no reason other than “there has to be a romance”
  • Most of her scenes had nothing to do with him

Except for the last point, all of that applies to Nakia too… but in addition

  • When he interrupted her work, she was angry and allowed to say something along the lines of “you ruined my mission!” unapologetically
  • She continued to do her job
  • She continued to thrive separate from him
  • Love for a single man didn’t outweigh her love for humanity and it wasn’t something she had to agonize over. It was a simple decision that wasn’t considered a real conflict for her.

In general, love didn’t make these heroes and warriors weak. It didn’t make these women vulnerable in a way that didn’t fit their personalities or compromise their duties.

In fact, we only saw love do that twice – when T’Challa saw Nakia and when T’Challa watched Zuri die.

Performative allyship

cishetsrgross:

khalifaziz:

I see more posts by white people asking if it’s “okay” for them to see Black Panther than I do see them asking for links to charity campaigns trying to help young Black kids see the movie. 

which is to say the BP tags have like three of the former posts every day, but I have yet to see a SINGLE post by a white person asking people to send them links for campaigns they can support. 

I need someone to realize that this is the pinacle of performative allyship.

they’re out here trying to get their hoodpass into wakanda but aren’t ready to let Jerome hold a dollar. They want to be invited to the cookout, but won’t even bring a bag of ice. They want to think themselves the ‘special white people’ but don’t actually want to do the work of the special white people.

and before you, white person clearly missing the point of this posts asks, yes, you CAN reblog this if it’s to show support of the message.

Here’s some links, btw, to gofundmes that still need funding for helping black kids see Black Panther:

https://www.gofundme.com/help-steel-kids-see-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/tmals-scholars-black-panther-event

https://www.gofundme.com/black-panther-challenge-BGCN

https://www.gofundme.com/eotowakanda

https://www.gofundme.com/send-the-kids-to-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/helpkidsseeblackpantherphilly

https://www.gofundme.com/help-bronx-kids-see-black-panther

https://www.gofundme.com/Help-Ghanas-Kids-See-Black-Panther

https://www.gofundme.com/help-kids-in-bk-see-black-panther