Ok, I have a question. So when Black Panther came out everyone was embracing their African roots.

[Antwon Mitchell]

I've noticed black americans are the group of people who shyt on fandom the most but be stanning fukking weirdos like beyonce, cardi b, obama, white people who do black shyt etc for no reason. This is just an observation.

 

[???]

I don't know why either.

 

[Emoryal]

OP..

Seems like you asked a rhetorical question, but to answer your question..

YES, it is a fad and fads will come and go until way after all of us have died.

However, you could look at it a different way.

Perhaps, BP and BP2 will get the youth to tap in on their roots, culture and embrace it. Perhaps, it will instill Black people to practice self love and appreciation for their culture and it may cause the youth and some adults to do research, reach out to others within the diaspora and motherland which could create a trend that will no longer be another fad.

The aforentioned may not happen, but it may happen.

Moral of the story:

I would rather a fake movie inspire Black people to love themselves than to have no movie at all!

It's fake "love" and inspiration hence why you yourself knows it won't make any impact beyond consumerism.

 

[Master Teacher]

97% of you didn't even go see Birth Of A Nation.



I was there and @Ashley Banks

I sure as hell didn't see you.

And it was a great movie about facts not flying spaceships.

Birth of a nation was a trash movie and not historically accurate

90 percent of the movie is nat turner being a bytch all the graphic violence happens to blacks

If it was a real movie there woukd have been a 30 minute gore fest of every white on the plantation being brutally murdered in great detail

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I never understood why entertainment is like a form of religion for the black American community.

Because entertainment is rooted in escapism and people try to escape their reality, the harsher the reality the more people indulge escapist behaviors

shyt is basic psychology 101

 

[jackson35]

I mean by clothing the whole 9.


Over a fake movie.

Then it all stops.

So when part 2 comes out soon are people going to put on this act for a few months again?

africans dress up like that for anything that is african centered, whether it's earth, wind and fire show or the african parade.stop looking for reasons to hate what speaks to our culture

 

[Commish]

It's fake "love" and inspiration hence why you yourself knows it won't make any impact beyond consumerism.

Well, we can't speak in absolutes! Granted, most people may be trendy and/or "fake", but we can't say all are trendy/fake.

Perhaps we don't need a fictional movie to inspire us to have self love, but for some people, it may be what is needed to spark curiosity which may springboard into something meaningful, genuine and sincere.

Point being..

It doesn't have to always be negative. It isn't always about the movie itself. It could be the actors and actresses that inspires people to go after their dreams.

Image matters to people, so the more Black people are showcased in films, the more viewers will find inspiration that manifests into actions which may create more Black films.

Just a thought..

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

dudes don't get it

maybe it's not for them to get it

never mind the fact Science Fiction is one of the most influential, if not inspirational genres across mediums that often encompasses and are primarily beneficially to marginalized people

but you know

black people being happy for maybe 2 1/2 hours is a bad thing apparently.

Well, we can't speak in absolutes! Granted, most people may be trendy and/or "fake", but we can't say all are trendy/fake.

Perhaps we don't need a fictional movie to inspire us to have self love, but for some people, it may be what is needed to spark curiosity which may springboard into something meaningful, genuine and sincere.

Point being..

It doesn't have to always be negative. It isn't always about the movie itself. It could be the actors and actresses that inspires people to go after their dreams.

Image matters to people, so the more Black people are showcased in films, the more viewers will find inspiration that manifests into actions which may create more Black films.

Just a thought..

 

[KingJudah2]

Yankees was afrikan for 2 months then went back to engaging in batty sodomite behavior

 

[KyokushinKarateMan]

Thread is corny and condescending.

 

[Benefited]

I dont know about you guys but I started seeing dishikis around like 2015-2016.

Hell, by 2017 they were on the decline until black panther came out, then they made a resurgence.

Did you guys already forget about all the police killings that led to this era of 'wokeness'?

Just goes to show most of us as black people are emotionalist
Your right they were popular during the woke era as a sign of black pride and unity,but that was in the midst of the "woke" era as you call it of protesting police brutality etc.
But yes that slowly died as the media stopped giving it the coverage to tell us how upset we should be,and the cameras dissapeard from the protest.
Then it came back out for the weeks leading up to and during the black panther premiere. Everyone thought how powerful the visual were of an advanced African society,because in a sense it showed our true origins that the history books forced on us in shcool don't. But fast foward about a year later and its fukk foreign blacks,reinforcing foreign black stereotypes and "AADOS over everything". You have to admit the 180 degree turn in a years time is alarming. This should really be the lesson in why we can no longer continue to start movements rooted in emotion. But sadly that is the quickest and easiest way to get our people to move with passion. But at the end of the day its a dead end if its not rooted in education and knowledge.

 

[Commish]

dudes don't get it

maybe it's not for them to get it

never mind the fact Science Fiction is one of the most influential, if not inspirational genres across mediums that often encompasses and are primarily beneficially to marginalized people

but you know

black people being happy for maybe 2 1/2 hours is a bad thing apparently.

I agree. I don't expect all of us to agree nor see things the same way. For me, I just don't want to focus on the negative. I believe that BP, like music, can spark positivity, inspiration and aspiration to do better for self and others..

 

[AllHolosEve]

Like people said, this is like cosplay or wearing your team jersey through the season. I hope people do the shyt again when part 2 come out. Every race can be out there having fun like this but Black People, fukk that.

Why the fukk does Birth of a Nation always get brought up in this shyt? The movies have nothing in common.

 

[Emoryal]

Well, we can't speak in absolutes! Granted, most people may be trendy and/or "fake", but we can't say all are trendy/fake.

Perhaps we don't need a fictional movie to inspire us to have self love, but for some people, it may be what is needed to spark curiosity which may springboard into something meaningful, genuine and sincere.

Point being..

It doesn't have to always be negative. It isn't always about the movie itself. It could be the actors and actresses that inspires people to go after their dreams.

Image matters to people, so the more Black people are showcased in films, the more viewers will find inspiration that manifests into actions which may create more Black films.

Just a thought..

Self love isn't what is needed in the first place. And Im not making broad assumptions about what what may hapoen tho whom because something or somebody did this. Its just a waste if time imo.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Yankees was afrikan for 2 months then went back to engaging in batty sodomite behavior

Would neg, but looking at your rep, it wouldn't make much of a difference.