Michael B Jordan: "We don't have any Black mythology or Folklore"

[Blessed Koala]

Sounds like he means we don't have any in the mainstream. Its not that deep

I mean folks can change that. I'm honestly dying to see African lore and etc hit the big screen, rather than this whole superhero "Game of Thrones" knockoff shyt. Times like this I wish there was a Renaissance of black directors and etc to create innovative cinema in a modern day setting. Hell, one of my biggest dreams is somebody to tackle a Woody Allen'ish type of flick with nothing but black actors/actresses without the bullshyt of a all black cast. I mean something like My Dinner with Andre or something with a heavy social commentary with a bit of charm and wit.

 

[KingZaire_]

This nikka tweaking there is a lot of black mythology I have a bunch of books on African and AA mythology and folklore from when I was a child.

Moe don't know shyt and is talking out his ass

 

[Blessed Koala]

Let's ask a more grounded question. What black authors have written any fiction? Mythical or fantasy? Or otherwise?

This woman wrote The Matrix.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

This woman wrote The Matrix.

Breh. Can I get a name so I can do my googles?

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Let's ask a more grounded question. What black authors have written any fiction? Mythical or fantasy? Or otherwise?

A black woman wrote Matrix.

 

[Blessed Koala]

Breh. Can I get a name so I can do my googles?

Sophia Stewart. She actually wrote the entire story but the directors stole her shyt without any type of compensation.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

This woman wrote The Matrix.

Octavia Butler
N.K. Jeminsin (used to write DBZ fan fiction when I was in grade school, she's good)

This used to be a huge thing for me. I stopped reading epic fantasy for a LOOOOOOOOONG time because I was tired of hearing about it from European perspective. I was actually going to enter into a Creative Writing program at Univ. of Maryland in another life...

People oftentimes miss how inspirational and influential a powerful mythos is on the collective esteem of an ethnic group...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The Bible is full of black meta humans

 

[CrownHeights]

He made a comment* about there not being any black mythology. So he's wrong. Just because you know people as ignorant as him doesn't make him right.

* It seems that his quote was taken out of context.

I don't think he meant that literally. I think he meant there isn't any in the mainstream that Hollywood would get behind.

Even if he did, can you blame him for not knowing about black mythology in a white dominated society?

Cut bruh some slack.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Sophia Stewart. She actually wrote the entire story but the directors stole her shyt without any type of compensation.

This breh does not like her.

Snopes not fukking with her either. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sophia-stewart-matrix-lawsuit/

 

[ORDER_66]

But he died doing it . I always thought of John Henrys story as a precautionary tale.

I think that even though he died he STILL beat the machine it sucked that he did not live but I knew it was gonna happen... It just a tale to show that anything is humanly possible... I guess:

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

goddamn twitter is such an encapsulation of what is wrong with society right now. all these morons, most of whom ain't done shyt in life and never will, are so convinced that they matter so much. it's sickening.

Is everything alright breh? You sound pissed the fukk off every time I see you lately

 

[Zero]

DROGAS Wave just came out tho.

:lupemperor:

 

[Cadillac]

So all of those books I've read in my black history class as a lad was bullshyt?

no, just MBJ saying some smart dumb shyt.

Let's ask a more grounded question. What black authors have written any fiction? Mythical or fantasy? Or otherwise?

we have Octavia Butler

 

[Silver Surfer]