Static Shock on WB back then was always that gem.

[loyola llothta]

This was one of my favorites back then don’t understand why it’s not seen as a legendary black cartoon definitely should be a movie big money potential

Pretty Big in Brazil

 

[SNYC]

Dwayne Mcduffie, died too soon.

It's crazy, because he was the most militant one (not marriage ) out of that Milestone group

 

[old pig]

loved the comic...cartoon was cool too...should’ve been had a live action movie/TV series

 

[old pig]

I learn later he based the bang Baby orgins on M.O.V.E being bomb by Philly Police

that’s fukking incredible to learn...did not know that

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

I wanted to like it



But it was always less mature compared to other DCAU shows

 

[CopiousX]

Wtf. I dont remember any of that. Too busy watching fights to remember white kids family. 90% of the show happened in the hood anyway






CacFather: "its bad enough I gotta deal with them all day long, now one of them is in my house"




CopiousX: -> ->->

 

[Shang Tsung]

I miss that feeling of waking up early saturday morning and watching kids wb

 

[CopiousX]

This was one of my favorites back then don’t understand why it’s not seen as a legendary black cartoon definitely should be a movie big money potential

That era was something else for black cartoons. Between this and theProudFamily, everything was so conscious, its not even funny.

 

[010101]

this the time milestone comics should get the support they should've got at the door*

 

[010101]

got me thinking that instead of cats lobbying to try & play the first black superman why not educate the world on his superior

*

 

[Judo]

I miss that feeling of waking up early saturday morning and watching kids wb

Me too breh. Cartoons and cereal

 

[old pig]

Me too breh. Cartoons and cereal

 

[Judo]

Legend.

I learn later he based the bang Baby orgins on M.O.V.E being bomb by Philly Police

On the evening of May 13, 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, a black liberation group, and the Philadelphia Police Department erupted horrifically. That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex and C-4 explosives on the MOVE organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames. Eleven people were killed, including five children and the founder of the organization. Sixty-one homes were destroyed, and more than 250 citizens were left homeless.

MOVE was founded in 1972 and still exists today, though its membership numbers are unknown. Members lived communally and described themselves as a family, changing their last names to Africa out of reverence for their founder and for the continent. In nonviolent but disruptive demonstrations, members protested at zoos, pet stores, and political rallies; the group believed in composting, homeschooling, and a diet of raw foods, and spoke out against war and police brutality. They maintained a complicated relationship with Philadelphia residents; some sympathized with their mission, while others found their lifestyle to be disruptive.

Members frequently had run-ins with authorities. In 1978, MOVE engaged in a 15-month standoff after then-Mayor Frank Rizzo, notorious for a volatile relationship with black residents and activist groups, ordered the group to be removed from their home. The confrontation ended in the death of a police officer for which nine members of MOVE, nicknamed the MOVE 9, were controversially convicted and given life sentences.

Four years later, MOVE relocated to the quiet, largely middle-class African American residence on Osage Avenue. Their neighbors continually complained to the city about trash around their rowhouse, confrontations with residents, and that MOVE members broadcast sometimes obscene political messages by bullhorn. After they’d spent three years on Osage Avenue, then-Mayor Wilson Goode, the first African American mayor of Philadelphia, gave the order to evict them. What began as a door-to-door evacuation of the neighborhood the night before became a violent, day-long ordeal no one in the community could have foreseen.

Only two people survived the bombing — Ramona Africa, then 29, and a child, Birdie Africa, then 13, later known as Michael Moses Ward; both were badly burned. Despite two grand jury investigations, a civil suit, and a commission final report that cited the bombing as “reckless, ill-conceived, and hastily-approved,” no one was ever criminally charged for the attack. Survivor Ramona Africa immediately went on to serve seven years in prison on rioting and conspiracy charges for arrest warrants from before the bombing.

Neighbors returned to shoddy construction in 1986, and by the early 2000s, two-thirds of the neighborhood was bought out by the city. Today, the houses are largely vacant. The bombing, now deemed one of the worst tragedies in the history of Philadelphia, lives on in the memories of the city’s residents. A few years later, the Waco siege standoff between law enforcement and a Texas religious sect would sear itself into the country’s consciousness. The MOVE bombing remains largely forgotten nationally.

Source:The day Philadelphia bombed its own people

Spoiler: Pictures

 

[Ironman]

got me thinking that instead of cats lobbying to try & play the first black superman why not educate the world on his superior

*

World ain't ready for Icon, Blue Marvel, Nighthawk, shoutout to Rocket

 

[fkthisgaysite]

You know he posts here right?

@staticshock