Poll of the Day > Sony is developing a movie where ONLY African Americans have SUPERPOWERS!!!

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HBO and Amazon are already developing a controversial ALT-HISTORY series called Confederate and Black America for TV but Sony and Studio 8 are heading their sights for a bigger bet after they optioned for making the movie BLACK, about a nation where ONLY African-Americans have SUPERPOWERS!!

The comic book series is from Black Mask Studios and has been optioned by former WB Exec, Jeff Robinov.

The 6 issue run was created by Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 starts with a police shooting in Brooklyn that sees teen Kareem Jenkins survive a hail of bullets and discover he's a lot more powerful than he ever realized.

Kareem connects with others who share similar powers as widespread oppressive global conspiracy to keep the knowledge of their powers from the world and especially the black community before it's finally unveiled...

Kareem says "The day i got shot changed my life" which references the Black Lives Matter movement, the "unjustly incarcerated" and explosive racial tensions.

Osajyefo and Smith are Ex-Marvel and DC digital editors and are working together to produce the picture

The comic series has attracted a lot of attention lately for modern day secession and civil war series "Calexit"

Are you "offended" by this movie? let's see if people actually are

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People still care about skin colour, lulz.
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Full Throttle posted...

Kareem connects with others who share similar powers as widespread oppressive global conspiracy to keep the knowledge of their powers from the world and especially the black community before it's finally unveiled...

Had me up until this nonsense.
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Lokarin posted...

People still care about skin colour, lulz.

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Honestly, are there any black content creators out there who write about things other than being black? Its boring
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Full Throttle posted...

Are you "offended" by this movie?

You had me at "Sony is developing a movie".
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Full Throttle posted...

Are you "offended" by this movie?

Why would I be? I've watched many things with mostly black folk in it. One of my favourite TV series is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for example.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Full Throttle posted...

Are you "offended" by this movie?

Why would I be? I've watched many things with mostly black folk in it. One of my favourite TV series is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for example.

The big distinction is that the fresh prince is about a family that happens to be black while this is people BLESSED with THE POWER OF BLACK, fighting those evil whities oppressing them.
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So is this like X Men with the metaphor removed?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

The big distinction is that the fresh prince is about a family that happens to be black while this is people BLESSED with THE POWER OF BLACK, fighting those evil whities oppressing them.

The power of black?
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Full Throttle posted...

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Question.
Why is he white?
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wwinterj25 posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The big distinction is that the fresh prince is about a family that happens to be black while this is people BLESSED with THE POWER OF BLACK, fighting those evil whities oppressing them.

The power of black?

ONLY African Americans have SUPERPOWERS!!!

I can only assume that being black is what made them super.
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If it's set in the USA, it sort of makes sense because of how long slavery dragged on for... The strongest and the fittest survived the trip from Africa and then had to again withstand the deplorable treatment they endured upon arriving in the new world.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

I can only assume that being black is what made them super.

Ah gotcha. Still doesn't bother me.
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Full Throttle posted...

a nation where ONLY African-Americans have SUPERPOWERS

So it's like present day America.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

If it's set in the USA, it sort of makes sense because of how long slavery dragged on for... The strongest and the fittest survived the trip from Africa and then had to again withstand the deplorable treatment they endured upon arriving in the new world.

They'd be pretty incompetent slave owners if they couldn't keep slaves alive.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

If it's set in the USA, it sort of makes sense because of how long slavery dragged on for... The strongest and the fittest survived the trip from Africa and then had to again withstand the deplorable treatment they endured upon arriving in the new world.

They'd be pretty incompetent slave owners if they couldn't keep slaves alive.

Not really... They soon started outnumbering white people with high birth rates. I'm sure the better workers were also encouraged to have more kids [citation needed].
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Cool concept gonna be shit tho
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That's insanely stupid unlike Confederate and Black America.
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ChipChipperson posted...

Honestly, are there any black content creators out there who write about things other than being black? Its boring

Wouldn't make the same amount of money if they didn't pander to identity politics.

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

So is this like X Men with the metaphor removed?

While many groups have claimed that the X-Men are a metaphor for them, it's never worked for blacks or any other race because half of the theme is that *anybody* could turn out to be a mutant whereas only the children of at least one black parent can be black.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

If it's set in the USA, it sort of makes sense because of how long slavery dragged on for... The strongest and the fittest survived the trip from Africa and then had to again withstand the deplorable treatment they endured upon arriving in the new world.

No, it really doesn't make a lick of sense considering that ALL overseas American immigrants underwent hellacious trips which were actually far worse before the slave trade picked up and were subjected to brutal living conditions. The slave trade largely began after all the infrastructure went down and largely took place in a more gentle climate.

And, in terms of survival of the fittest, keep in mind that blacks were historically subjected to less-adverse conditions which is why blacks kept their melanin whereas whites mutated to adapt to environments with less sunlight. Survival of the fittest also shaped nations, where the strongest nations were able to inflict their will on weaker nations... which, of course, is one reason why there was a slave trade in the first place. If the West African nations had strong, cohesive governments, the slave trade would have been thwarted. However, in the absence of a strong, reasonably central government (or smaller powers with different values), you had tribes selling other tribes into bondage for rum and other goods

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Not really... They soon started outnumbering white people with high birth rates.

That's not even remotely close to being true. First, you've wrongly presupposed that the birth rates today are the same as they were over 200 years ago -- which, if you stayed awake in history, you'd know isn't the case. Second, you've forgotten that more whites immigrated than blacks; which is also something anybody with even the barest knowledge of US history should know. Third, you've made some misguided assumptions about the prevalence of slave ownership in the US. At any rate, at its absolute peak -- the highest point which was in 1790 -- the number of blacks in the US was only 20% of the total population. In short, it never even came close to outnumbering whites.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pdf
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Okay than, not really anything to get worked up over. It is barely worth an eye roll.
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Hop103 posted...

That's insanely stupid unlike Confederate and Black America.

You jelly you won't have super powers?

Zeus posted...

That's not even remotely close to being true. First, you've wrongly presupposed that the birth rates today are the same as they were over 200 years ago -- which, if you stayed awake in history, you'd know isn't the case. Second, you've forgotten that more whites immigrated than blacks; which is also something anybody with even the barest knowledge of US history should know. Third, you've made some misguided assumptions about the prevalence of slave ownership in the US. At any rate, at its absolute peak -- the highest point which was in 1790 -- the number of blacks in the US was only 20% of the total population. In short, it never even came close to outnumbering whites.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

[citation needed].

Didn't this alert you to the sarcasm?
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Do all of them have superpowers?

In that timeline I think we would have been enslaved.

If one of really got their superpowers from getting shot by the police then I'm actually dead because that's hilarious.
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Bligh_with_no_T posted...

So is this like X Men with the metaphor removed?

LOL
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I started to wonder how this would even work, especially in a modern setting, so I assumed that it was set during the civil right movements where a white government tried to hide that all African Americans got some kind of superpower.
After checking around, it seems like it is in a modern setting and only 0.5% of African Americans got some kind of superpower.
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I'm trying to picture a flashback sequence like the Luke Cage needle scene, except it's happening at the Tuskegee syphilis trials and having a very hard time picturing it being anything short of an awkward Venn diagram of pandering and cringeworthy.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

That's not even remotely close to being true. First, you've wrongly presupposed that the birth rates today are the same as they were over 200 years ago -- which, if you stayed awake in history, you'd know isn't the case. Second, you've forgotten that more whites immigrated than blacks; which is also something anybody with even the barest knowledge of US history should know. Third, you've made some misguided assumptions about the prevalence of slave ownership in the US. At any rate, at its absolute peak -- the highest point which was in 1790 -- the number of blacks in the US was only 20% of the total population. In short, it never even came close to outnumbering whites.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

[citation needed].

Didn't this alert you to the sarcasm?

I couldn't be sure to what extent any of the claims were serious, nor do I want anybody being misinformed on the particulars.

Foppe posted...

I started to wonder how this would even work, especially in a modern setting, so I assumed that it was set during the civil right movements where a white government tried to hide that all African Americans got some kind of superpower.
After checking around, it seems like it is in a modern setting and only 0.5% of African Americans got some kind of superpower.

0.5% is still a massive amount, tbh. That's 650k people in the US alone.
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Outrage culture at it again.

Help I don't like a thing, somebody do something
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Bligh_with_no_T posted...

So is this like X Men with the metaphor removed?

kinda ruins the point, doesn't it?
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Mead posted...

Outrage culture at it again.

Help I don't like a thing, somebody do something

Well, the show is basically the product of outrage culture.
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Zeus posted...

That's 650k people in the US alone.

African-American kind of precludes the rest of the world.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

That's 650k people in the US alone.

African-American kind of precludes the rest of the world.

Touche. I had assumed Ducky misstated things, though, and that all Africans were going to have powers.
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Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Outrage culture at it again.

Help I don't like a thing, somebody do something

Well, the show is basically the product of outrage culture.

Please elaborate on that one
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is it consider a blaxploitation film?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Lokarin posted...

People still care about skin colour, lulz.

ernieforss posted...

is it consider a blaxploitation film?

It's called "diversity" now.
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ChipChipperson posted...

Honestly, are there any black content creators out there who write about things other than being black? Its boring

Is it boring that 99% of white content creators write about white people being white?
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Any movie/series/etc where only one race has super powers is incredibly stupid and I would never watch any of them. I don't care if the race is white, asian, mexican, anything, if its limited to one race im not interested. Although if the story takes place in any one of those countries where thats the predominate race it wouldn't bother me if theres never 'x' race involved because they just aren't part of the setting. If the movie took place in Africa I'd be fine with never seeing a white person but then this story would lose its meaning.

I know this movie is just going to be about black empowerment, nothing wrong with that but how many stories can be pumped out where the moral of the story is "you are black and you arent as good as these people but you can overcome them"? Why keep teaching people that they are not as good as others because they happen to be black? You should come out of the womb thinking you are on equal footing with everyone else and if people keep telling you "well you are [equal] but you aren't really because everyone secretly hates you", then why not believe it?

dainkinkaide posted...

ChipChipperson posted...

Honestly, are there any black content creators out there who write about things other than being black? Its boring

Is it boring that 99% of white content creators write about white people being white?

He specifically means to say that all black writers do is write about black empowerment, overcoming da struggle, etc.

Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Outrage culture at it again.

Help I don't like a thing, somebody do something

Well, the show is basically the product of outrage culture.

Please elaborate on that one

If you choose not to see it, I'm not sure any amount of explaining will sway you. After all, you can't teach those who refuse to learn.... especially because even you surely must see how this is firmly rooted in BLM (an outrage movement largely founded on a handful of fraudulent narratives, including the debunked "hands up, don't shoot" Michael Brown where even Eric Holder finally noted that he had gone for the officer's gun) and attempts to reframe complicated, institutional failings as a simple racist narrative where blacks are being held back by whites because they're special. The whole thing is an outrage anthem and is none too subtle about it.
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dioxxys posted...

He specifically means to say that all black writers do is write about black empowerment, overcoming da struggle, etc.

You mean black people write about the things they know and/or escapist fiction? And, despite that being the entire goddamn history of western literature when white people have kept doing it, it's boring when black people keep doing it?
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dainkinkaide posted...

dioxxys posted...

He specifically means to say that all black writers do is write about black empowerment, overcoming da struggle, etc.

You mean black people write about the things they know and/or escapist fiction? And, despite that being the entire goddamn history of western literature when white people have kept doing it, it's boring when black people keep doing it?

Guess we'd better toss Homer and Shakespeare out the window and start teaching Tyler Perry and Kanye West in schools instead. Surely that will remedy the crisis!
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dainkinkaide posted...

dioxxys posted...

He specifically means to say that all black writers do is write about black empowerment, overcoming da struggle, etc.

You mean black people write about the things they know and/or escapist fiction? And, despite that being the entire goddamn history of western literature when white people have kept doing it, it's boring when black people keep doing it?

Probably a reductivist argument of the worst kind, considering the wealth and variety of white literature. Nor is it an actual excuse. Sexually frustrated, geeky white males write about what they know and escapism and, not only does much of it look and read the same, but it's rightly derided as crap -- even the stuff written to appeal to that market. That's not to say that complete crap can't be done well, mind you, and that there aren't examples which transcend the mediocrity. Plus it's worth noting that there ARE black writers who leave their comfort zone, so even your basic premise is flawed.
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Zeus posted...

0.5% is still a massive amount, tbh. That's 650k people in the US alone.

And most of them seems to not know that they got superpowers, making it much less.
Perhaps some of them got weak superpowers which is why we got so many good black athletes.
Like Jesse Owens.
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Ummmmm-

This was done before. Except it was called shaft shafts big score and shaft in Africa.

Not only was John shaft the only one w superpowers but he had the strongest superpower ever made/ the coolness factor.

A power that allows you to defeat anyone cause you are more badass than them even if you have no logical right to win.

Batman exhibited this in small quantities whenever he fights superman. But he's low level and not an 80s (or 70s) movie badass.

Facts are facts though. The power of cool is the highest superpower that can be achieverd.
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As a point of fact the world should recategorize race into two things.

1- cool

2- dork

So skin color is no longer a race or factor in anything and a persons merit cases bad ass quantity determines their "race" in society. Dorks get stuffed in lockers like they deserve and cool transcends the physical appearance.
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