Black Panther<\/em>\u00a0claiming they were duping black Africans and distorting the black liberation movement.<\/p>\nWhile thousands of South Africans continue to flock to cinemas to watch the Marvel film, Fana took to social media to share his thoughts on the harm the film would do to the African fight for emancipation.<\/p>\n
He started off a lengthy essay on the film by claiming the movie may offer hope to \u201cthe hopeless African majority in the world\u201d, and congratulated its creators for doing so, but said he was not celebrating.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud indeed, but am I celebrating? The answer is an emphatic no and my reasons are a few. I\u2019m not celebrating because once more, Hollywood has played its hand in exploiting black film for its own end and black people have once more fallen for the carrot.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that if Hollywood really wanted to include the African child, they would have offered producership to its director Ryan\u00a0Coogler.<\/p>\n
Fana said he was disappointed in the way Hollywood used the\u00a0Black Panther<\/em>\u00a0name, often associated with the American black liberation movement, to make money and dilute the movement\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n\u201cA white company in Hollywood suddenly develops a conscience about the lack of a black superhero in the Hollywood estate and fights the good fight for all Africans and the diaspora? Reality check. Once more, Hollywood has colonized the history of our struggle. This time they did it in the most callous way. They have destroyed the narrative of a struggle movement and through the power of money and media, replaced it with a frivolous fantastical film that has no bearing whatsoever on what happens in the daily lives of Africans who they claim to represent.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Marvel \u201cpreyed on the black mass\u2019 insatiable appetite to assimilate white lives\u201d by creating a hero similar to those created by white communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a time in our history when a flurry of nationalist black academia was trying to convince us Jesus Christ and Moses were black. The evidence was paper thin, but in our overzealous ambition to capture white history and make it our own, we fell for it. Today, Marvel Studios\u2019 Superhero is our modern day Jesus who saves the day. We must have our own, you know why? Because white people have been having it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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