I can’t even remember if I saw “Black Panther” in a theater or not. It doesn’t really matter. I thought it was OK; a great villain was wasted in a lame climax. But I can see why the movie resonated with black audiences: Here was a superhero movie with an all-black cast (except for Martin Freeman) set in a technologically advanced nation in Africa. I saw some tweets go by saying that Wakanda is what Africa would look like now if it hadn’t been colonized. But it also struck me that some famous black women were dazzled by Wakanda. After all, it was a kingdom that was passed to the male heir — unless he was challenged by another man, in which case it became a trial by combat. Nothing really feminist about that.
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