Ben Shapiro, conservative activist and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, dedicated a portion of his daily podcast to airing his grievances over fawning media coverage of the new Marvel superhero film Black Panther, mocking African Americans who are excited about the films majority black casting.
In an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show uploaded yesterday, Shapiro dedicated a segment to expressing his frustration that entertainment media has focused on the release of Black Panther, which is the first world-release superhero movie to feature a majority black cast and be directed by an African American. Shapiro expressed disdain for the media attention surrounding the cultural significance of the movies release.
Everyone in the media is talking about the most important thing that has ever happened in the history of humanity, or at least since Caitlyn Jenner became a womana transgender womanand that, of course, is the release of Black Panther. It is so deeply important, Shapiro said, mockingly.
Weve heard its deeply important to millions of black Americans, who after all were not liberated from slavery 200 years ago and liberated by the civil rights movement with federal legislation, have not been gradually restored to what always should have been full civil rights in the United States. None of that has mattered up till they made a Marvel movie about a superhero who is black in a country filled with black people. Blade was not enough. Catwoman with Halle Berry, no. OK, Wakanda is where it is, Shapiro said.
He continued sarcastically, This is the most important moment in black American history, not Martin Luther King, not Frederick Douglass, not the Civil War, not the end of Jim Crow, none of that, not Brown vs. Boardthe most important thing is that Chadwick Boseman puts claws on his hands and a mask on his face and runs around jumping off cars in CGI fashiondeeply, deeply important. Black children everywhere will now believe that they too can be superheroes who jump off cars in fictional countries.
Shapiro said that he loathed the media coverage surrounding Black Panther because he disliked identity politics and had never complained as an Orthodox Jewish kid that no presidents have been Orthodox Jews. He went on to compare the release of Black Panther to the election of President Barack Obama
The Right Wing hero, and this fool doesn't even know where Slavery ended. Black people can't be happy about anything with out racist right wingers complaining. ---
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