Black Panther - an Alt-Right Superhero for Leftists

Author: Timothy C. Trepanier
Source: Sott.net

Imagine that Hitler and Oprah had a baby, and that baby's name was Shaft (or perhaps Helmut).

He would be like a skinhead, but with an afro.

One hand raised in protest as a fist, the black power salute, clutching a flag emblazoned with a rainbow coloured swastika.

The other hand attempting a feeble, limp-wristed Seig Heil, barely mustering the strength to hold a piece of fried chicken, coincidentally shaped like a hammer and sickle.

He wears a dark hoodie with a picture of Che Guevara, who himself is wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Richard Spencer being punched by Chairman Mao, who is wearing a red MAGA baseball cap, loaned to him by Joseph Goebbels, the original founder of Antifa.

His archetype - Pepe the gorilla, sipping on a soy milkshake.

This baby was no ordinary baby, for he was destined for greatness. He grew up to be the benevolently xenophobic, compassionately despotic emperor of the ethnically pure, 100% genuinely fictional country of Wakanda. His name is T'Challa (the artist formerly known as Kangz), and he is here to chew watermelon-flavoured bubblegum and kick some deplorable ass, and he's all out of bubblegum!

Alas, if only Idiocracy played professional basketball. If only there were concentration camps for albinos. If only hillbillies were fluent in eubonics. If only we could keep crackers as slaves. If only there were bagpipes in every rap song. If only there were some less offensive words that rhyme with trigger.

Then, and only then, would our fake non-fictional world be as perfect a place to live in as the real fictional world of Wakanda!

To say that Black Panther is a mess of incongruities and contradictions would be an understatement. Not the movie itself per se, but the way it's being marketed as some kind of watershed moment for dark-skinned people worldwide. A quick glance of leftist friendly headlines and one would have little doubt that T'Challa must be the new saviour of the world, like some kind of revolutionary Black Jesus.

It's hard to imagine a person whose whole sense of being and belonging in the world is so fragile that their self-worth depends solely on identifying with a comic book character from the 60s written by a couple of white Jewish dudes. It's actually kind of sad when you think about it.

And it's not like black people don't have a plethora of real-life examples of heroes to draw inspiration from. Leaders, innovators, statesmen, activists, politicians, inventors and artists. There are even numerous examples in the world of cinema that tell heroic black stories and showcase black talent behind and in front of the camera. So, why all the hullabaloo about this particular movie and why now?

If one were conspiratorially-minded, one might think that Hollywood and the mainstream media are going out of their way to deliberately drive a wedge between different groups of people.

Whether wielding the heavy-handed club of 'intersectional feminism' to sow discord between men and women, or dangling the grisly specter of 'Islamophobia' in order to demonize anyone remotely critical of a third world religion composed of jihadi head-choppers, or in the case of the new Black Panther movie, using the identity politics of race to further divisions between arbitrary groups of people based only on something as shallow as skin color. It's almost as if the Powers That Be are fanning the flames of division on purpose, in a glaringly obvious attempt to incite an all-out race war.

And the ironic thing is that in the Black Panther movie, the country of Wakanda comes off like a weirdly utopian version of the way liberals envision Trump's America. The Black Panther rules as king. The country is conservative, anti-globalist and nationalist. Walls protect the kingdom from outside influence. Pride in your race and county of origin is emphasized. They have an isolationist immigration policy and Wakanda is a hierarchical society that's intentionally racially homogeneous.

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