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Anyone who knows me knows I don& #39;t watch movies. They just aren& #39;t my thing. With that being said I have seen almost all of Chadwick Boseman& #39;s movies.
Anyone who knows me knows I don& #39;t watch movies. They just aren& #39;t my thing. With that being said I have seen almost all of Chadwick Boseman& #39;s movies.
If I was asked who my favorite actor was, I would say him. What he did while playing so many prominent Black figures was amazing. From James Brown to Jackie Robinson, to Thurgood Marshall. And don& #39;t get me started on Black Panther.
I don& #39;t think White American& #39;s know just how much Black Panther meant to Black people in this country and across the globe. Seeing a superhero who looked like me, even at the age of 18, did something for me. Representation is so important.
Seeing a Black main character who is strong and powerful, not because he& #39;s angry or a bad guy, but because he is the actual hero meant so much.
Black Panther is one of the few movies I& #39;ve seen more than once. I know people who have seen that movie dozens of times because of what it meant to the Black community.
That movie had my dad and I throwing up the Wakanda Forever salute for months after the movie came out. I know how much that movie meant to me, but I think it meant even more to him.
The Black community has lost a lot of prominent figures in the last year or two and it hurts. I don& #39;t know how else to describe it other than it hurts. It feels like every few weeks we are grieving over a new loss without time to fully process the last one.
I don& #39;t want this to seem like an "I& #39;m sad, please feel bad for me" thread because it& #39;s not that. But I will say, check in on your Black friends. Even if they weren& #39;t touched by Chadwick Boseman& #39;s tragic passing, they& #39;ve probably been touched by everything else happening.
