The cultural impact of Black Panther will be felt for generations. It wasn’t merely any other superhero film. It showed a vision that had never before been seen on film. It proved a point at the box office that was being resisted by production houses for ages. https://twitter.com/bklyn_rock/status/1299534442814464002
It was the first time that Afrofuturism was presented on screen to the world, first time a black superhero become an aspirational character for everyone. It made the conventional universe seem bland by comparison, and we realised what was being missed by suppressing diversity.
And if you have been living under a rock, time to change that and watch the greatest superhero fantasy film ever made.

Before this, American superhero films took you to all sorts of strange planets and alien civilisations. But never to Africa.
And for those of us who haven’t seen segregationist America, this is what it meant: https://twitter.com/since1938/status/965638272704761856
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