Is it cultural appropriation for an American to play an African character like the Black Panther? Why not cast a real African like Rick Cosnett?
Is it cultural appropriation for an American to play an African character like the Black Panther...
Charles Ortiz
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Thomas Jones
Another epic race bait thread made by a capeshit loving mobile poster
Jonathan Hughes
because that's not what an African is supposed to look like
Camden Phillips
nice dubs check mine
Andrew King
Check your failure.
Connor Davis
Why is he even called Black Panther? Panthers are Black in the first place
>look its a yellow banana?
>oh rly m8
Matthew James
Panthers are tan, friend. Try and get an education outside Marvel/DC Sup Forums threads once in a while.
Ryder Russell
thats a fucking cougar
Jordan Turner
bananas are white though
Jaxon Roberts
Because there's no such thing as a panther. I don't know why people think it's a real animal it's not it doesn't exist.
Cougars, leopards, jaguars, these are real cats. Calling them panthers is like calling all eagles Phoenixes. Only Americans do this shit with Panther.
Christian Reyes
>only Americans do this shit with Panther
Angel Morales
Yes, that's a tank. They don't go around calling actual animals panthers.
Joshua Sanchez
>Is it cultural appropriation for an American to play an African character like the Black Panther?
Not really "cultural appropriation", because he was created by a couple of white, Jewish guys from New York and is thoroughly a product of American culture, but it would be unabashed whitewashing - the very purpose of creating the Black Panther for Stan & Jack was to create a black hero, something they'd never been able to do in their twenty-five plus years in the industry at the time. If you want an inexplicably white African hero, go make another movie about The Phantom, whose line has somehow managed to stay white despite being in Africa for 400 years.
Elijah Hernandez
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Jaxon Reed
I thought the image on the right was Azrael batman from Knightfall
Nicholas Collins
You check your privilege.
Benjamin Cook
some one post the weebum of that panther sucking on that dudes hand
Luis Foster
The opposite happens all the time so I don't see the big fucking deal.
They made Annie, the RED HEADED orphan, into a black girl and no one cried about it. So glad that movie fucking flopped.
Nicholas Anderson
Rick Cosnett is so dreamy.
John Roberts
this
Daniel Thomas
You're right that "panther" isn't a specific species, but people still call whitefish "scrod" and all sorts of arthropods "bugs" as a catch-all term.
"Panther" just means a big cat that isn't a lion or tiger.
Brody Jones
but his name clearly states it is a black panther
did you sperg too when a pink panther played the pink panther in the pink panther movie?
Chase Mitchell
"Panther" can refer to any is several big cat species, including leopards, jaguars, and cougars (it's the genus name for big cats, including tigers and lions as well). The mythical creature Panther had black fur, so black variants of these animals are typically referred to that way.
So "black panther" is slightly redundant, but not inherently so. It's no less imprecise than Blue Beetle.
Anyway, T'Challa's specific animal is a leopard.
Parker Green
Why did this turn into a thread where people argue about animal taxonomy?