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The Black Panel at Comic-Con: 'African American culture is American culture'
The Guardian ^
Posted on 07/28/2014 11:03:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/28/2014 11:06:05 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: nickcarraway
COL’ got to be! Y’know? Shiiit.
To: nickcarraway
Does it include discussions on the “knock out game”?
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posted on
07/29/2014 12:31:18 AM PDT
by
albie
To: nickcarraway
Okay, we need to devote some serious attention to a discussion that occurs at a convention that is devoted to comic books?
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posted on
07/29/2014 4:47:33 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: nickcarraway
Black superheroes? That's an idea that is really funny. There's no fun in being a superhero when you can be a sports thug hero, a gangster rap thug hero, a pimp thug hero, a drug thug hero, a drive-by shooter thug hero. More realistic heroes for the kid's in the neighborhood to steal from their local newsstand.
To: Bigg Red
Why not we get much more serious attention to football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, golf, ad nauseum... why not a form of literature that actually has developed and grown through the years?
Did you know ‘MAUS’ won the pulitzer prize through a graphical presentation of plight of those who suffered in the Holocaust?
Did you know that they are looking at turning the ‘Forgotten Man’ into a graphic novel?
Don’t you agree that every venue that we can present conservative values we should? If we aren’t there the libs will be.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:07:57 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: nickcarraway
Black culture as expressed today would starve, self destruct and vanish without liberal support.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:08:45 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: nickcarraway
Urban culture was created as a FOIL to American/Western Culture by those who seek to destroy it.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:12:13 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I would further define “liberal support” as “robbing from traditional Western culture to prop up ‘Black’ culture”.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:13:21 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: nickcarraway; GeronL
Davis started the panel in 1998, five years after he founded Milestone, a comic book entertainment company responsible for some of the most successful black superheroes of the 90s, like Icon, a 300-year-old alien whose first earthly encounter was with a slave woman in the American south So blacks are aliens? Or aliens are black people?
I know Louis Farrakhan and Sun Ra spouted that kind of mumbo jumbo but if it's an alien, it isn't human and certainly isn't of African origin.
"black superhero" indeed.
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posted on
07/29/2014 7:50:58 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: reed13k
Shaq and RZA (past panelists) have no ties to comic books (unless you want to bring up that HORRIBLE Space Jam “cartoon”).
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posted on
07/29/2014 7:52:52 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: nickcarraway
"When I first started the panel," says Davis, during an interview that took 40 minutes to get to because he kept being mobbed by passersby, "There was a panel here at Comic-Con called Blacks in Comics, and that was a bitch fest, people saying 'Oh, Marvel won't hire me
' So I created the Black Panel, which is positive. We ask, 'How do we create our own heroes?' I see more positivity in a panel on black cartoonists than this race focused "For Us, By Us" focus group.
Cartoonists like George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Kyle Baker have more to say to the world at large than a bunch of thuggish breakdancer, slaves, and "gang" stereotypes trotted out one more time.
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posted on
07/29/2014 7:59:59 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: nickcarraway
"I want to reach young people of colour, and let them know they can do what I do. I don't play basketball and I'm not a rapper, though I can sing karaoke. There's 16-year-old kids out there who love comics who have no idea how to get into the field. I want to let them know that this is possible. I want to tell them to know these people on the Black Panel, stay in touch with these people." Tip number one, learn to draw.
Tip number two, learn to write or find someone who can.
Tip number three, realize that YOUR life experiences don't come into play when you are dealing with offworld adventures.
Billy Dee Williams brought this up in defiance of those in the audience at another convention asking about how his background prepared him to play Lando in the Star Wars franchise. He said that HIS inspiration in that role was Errol Flynn and the other roguish pirates. Lando was NOT from Earth, let alone Chicago.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:05:07 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: nickcarraway; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Right now, Davis is considering future guests. "One day I'm going to do a black panel with nobody on the panel except white people who have huge influence on African American culture, like Rick Rubin, Quentin Tarantino, Bill Clinton, who was in my mind the first black president. People who appreciate and respect black culture." I thought these people had an influence on American culture. I guess I don't live in "Black America", I live in the United States of America.
Martin Luther King Jr. denounced the race hustlers who wanted a black separatist America.
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:08:15 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: nickcarraway
I refuse to use the term African American. I have known several white South Africans who muse at the term since they are not allowed to claim it. I always point out that that term must include Egyptians, Libyans , and the like as well, not just black people.
To: nickcarraway
The Black Panel at Comic-Con: 'African American culture is American culture'
Fixed it
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posted on
07/29/2014 8:13:14 AM PDT
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: a fool in paradise
No clue who RZA is, but Shaq is known as an avid collector (superman focus) and as I recall contributed capital to Malibu or another black start-up in the industry when he was still a ballplayer.
In addition on the animation front beyond Space Jam,
he played John Henry Irons/Steel in Steel (DC animation)
He also voiced himself in the animated series Static Shock, Johnny Bravo, and Uncle Grandpa, and in The Lego Movie.
Oh, and Shaq supported Christie in his reelection bid in Jersey (which at least wasn’t a dem)
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posted on
07/29/2014 9:01:51 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: reed13k
I think RZA is from the Wu-Tang Clan rapper group.
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posted on
07/29/2014 9:03:59 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: a fool in paradise
yeah no clue how he fits in...
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posted on
07/29/2014 9:04:33 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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