Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther

Re:Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther by gamblor956 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:47PM (#24349228)

I got my information not from Fox News or something, but from mainstream media news sites going on and on about how progressive it was that their cast and crew was almost completely black(or at least that's how I remember it). I made the post I did because I wanted to push back against racism.

Citations required. I read the mainstream media sources too, and I don't know of any that characterized the Black Panther crew as almost all black. The majority of the cast was black, simply because the majority of the characters of the underlying comic are black.

What's next? Are you going to complain if David Copperfield is played by an Indian guy?

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Re:Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther by TheAdamAndChe on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:38AM (#24363900)

You are right about the news. I went back and looked, and they only discussed the cast, not the crew(except for some fringe sites that don't warrant discussion). This is most likely a result of my insecurities and biases warping my memory or perception of those articles.

Thank you for discussing this with me. It's easy to assume bad faith and ignore people, but your engagement taught me a lot.

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Re:Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:57PM (#24349276)

Yeah, the usual thing being noted was that it was a predominantly black cast in a major Hollywood film being marketed as a general blockbuster and not as a “black film”.

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