Why are Black people so underrepresented in /co/ media? This

>>93271113
>the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist
Get out newfag

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>>93271113
>This is pretty much the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist


Nigger, are you even trying?

>>93271113
>showcase magnificent Black culture & history.
Wakanda's not real
Wakanda left the rest of Africa to rot

for like 13% of the population the black american community always wants all the minority "representation" and willing to fuck over all other minorities to get it

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>>93271113
>the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist
Did you forget about me?

>>93271113

Black people are actually way over represented in Hollywood and TV. It's the Hispanics who are being fucked over.

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>>93271113
>This is pretty much the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist

Bonus points because He's Marvel.

>>93271653
It's funny how you're describing the white american community more than the black one. Most black people in the entertainment industry don't even have the opportunity to fuck over other minorities

>>93271113
>This is pretty much the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist
Do some fucking research before you make a thread

>No one mentioned Blade

>>93271113
African history is not exactly. That being said waknaka is very xenophobic so they dont give fuck all about anyone but themselves.

>>93271741
see>
>93271719

>>93271730
This.

Also Blacks are the only minority group willing to charge head first into social issues. The other groups wait and either reap the benefits of the Blacks struggle or play kiss up to whites.

You wanna know why you dont see many Asians and Hispanics? Because they dont speak up. They're scared if they dont play nice with the whites, the whites wont like them anymore.

>>93271730
But most white content creators don't "fuck anyone over." They just so happen to make a majority of characters not some shade of brown.

>first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist

Meteor Man (Robert Townsend - 1993)
Blankman (Damon Wayans - 1994)
Steel (Shaquille O'Neal - 1997)
Spawn (Michael Jai White - 1997)
Blade (Wesley Snipes - 1998)
Blade II (Wesley Snipes - 2002)
Catwoman (Halle Berry - 2004)
Blade: Trinity (Wesley Snipes - 2004)
Hancock (Will Smith - 2008)

>>93271792
>They're scared if they dont play nice with the whites, the whites wont like them anymore.
But nobody likes the blacks anyway

>>93271810
>Whites have never fucked over minorities in the media

And racism didn't exist until Obama was elected.

>>93271832
Nice reading comprehension, DaQuan

>>93271829
Yet Blacks dont care and still garner more respect than the other minority groups.

Asians get all their Hollywood roles taken by whites and are told it's good for them. Blacks never let that happen.

>>93271810
Sleepy Hollow says hello.

>>93271113
Because for some fucked up reason people expect whites to represent everyone and their grandmother in their works?


Are white people overrepresented in the works of black people?

>>93271861
Kinda hard to comprehend uneducated posts, Cletus.

>>93271899
I mean, you're the one who didn't read what was written, Jizzaiah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHDB2P9PtE
Still relevant, I see.

>>93271869
>Yet Blacks dont care and still garner more respect than the other minority groups.
Crying about "ey yo why ain't they any niggas in dis moobie" isn't garnering respect.

>>93271649
it would be real if not for white colonialists destroying our culture and forcing us into slavery

>>93271875
You know that movie's an inaccurate adaptation, right?

In Washington Irving's story, Ichabod Crane's a fuckin' schoolteacher and the horseman ain't even real, Brom Bones comes at Crane in the dark and throws a god damned jack-o-lantern at him to scare him out of town so he'll stop trying to steal the dude's fiancé.

>>93271810
Did you already forget your own post Bubba? Boy that meth must be kicking in.

>>93271957
Yet Black Panther exists.

Makes you think huh?

>>93271822
>Meteor Man

I love that film. The only time I've seen anyone make a slinky look sinister.

>>93271113
Black Actors and Filmmakers keep making the same urban drama, movie about drama, or wacky comedy films with mixed results. They rarely step out of their comfort zone to do something new.

>>93271972
Was talking about the tv show.

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>>93271968
Well, there it goes, most retarded post of the day. Congrats Shaniqualisha.

>>93272030
Uh yeah? Because he had a good showing in Civil War and became relatively popular. What were you even getting at there?

>>93272065
They made a TV show about the fucking Legend of Sleepy Hollow? The fuck could they possibly ramble on about for multiple seasons?

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>>93271972
>movie
boy you dumb

you dumb as hell

>>93271113
>Why are Black people so underrepresented in /co/ media
Because they are a very small portion of customers.

Also
>Wakanda
>magnificent Black culture & history.

>>93271626
No, he's shitposting.

>>93272010
>making characters not black is fucknig black people over
Ok

>>93272113
What in god's name am I even looking at here. Is this show about fucking time travellers?

>>93272099
>Blacks ask for Black superhero
>Marvel puts Black superhero on big screen
>Received well enough to get his own movie
>Not respect

Really jogs the noggin?

>/tv/

Who cares?

>>93272165
>implying they weren't already planning a BP movie

>>93272132
>"But most content creators dont fuck black people over"

Was that not what you wrote? Maybe you should use your magnificent reading comprehension to string together a sentence that gets your point across better.

>>93271810
I'd like to agree with that, but at the same time you're out of your fucking mind if you think over 50% of white content creators don't have a narrow mindset. This doesn't even have to be about race, it's exactly why we see the same plots produced over and over with shittier quality. There's only so many times you can reinforce the same devices and narratives before people get sick of it

>>93271829
That coincides with 'playing nice with the whites'

>>93272222
So blacks were expected enough for Marvel to think they could make a successful black superhero movie without people asking for it?

That works too.

>>93272228
>most whites content creators don't fuck over blacks = whites have never fucked over minorities in the media
No, that's not what I said. I said that a majority of white ocntent creators DON'T fuck over minorities because content creators typically make characters based off of their own preferences and what they know and are comfortable with. This applies to black, Asian, and Hispanic content creators too. Pay attention before you try to argue with someone.

>>93272233
That's a problem with literally every creator, that has nothing to do with race.

>>93272280
Sure, if you want to take it that way. But considering they've made two GotG movies and an Ant-Man movie, I think they're just trying to put more heroes out in the spotlight. It's a good thing, since a lot of these characters are really cool and should be more known to the mainstream public.

>>93272105
They made it into a Supernatural like show with Katrina being a witch who puts a spell on Crane that breaks after 200 years.
He and another have to stop the apocalypse.
It was alright for the first season and a half but then they started pulling alot of stupid shit out their ass, killed off the best characters and they should was canceled last month not even halfway into seasin 4.
It only survived to S4 because many like I was only watching for Nicole Berhie.
Its long and complicated.

>>93271113

This is the same website that hosts /pol/

Draw your own conclusions

>>93272105
Ichabod Crane was a spy working for George Washington, the headless horseman was one of the riders of the apocalypse and the demon Moloch was plotting to start the End of the World. There was more supernatural crap, but I didn't paid attention after season 2.

>>93272297
It actually does have correlation with race, sex and sexuality. Does that mean it's a causation? No, but don't try to tell me there's no correlation.

When your setting is in New York and the most diversity you can come up with is a token minority, you're doing something wrong. When your setting is in Egypt and you exclusively hire white actors, you're doing something wrong

>>93272434

Forgot to mention that blacks are underrepresented in media in general, so it's not really a surprise

>>93271693
Like people claiming WW was the first female superhero movie. Nobody remembers catwoman.

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>>93271113
This is pretty much the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*BREATH*
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

>>93271148
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>>93271719
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>>93272968
>b-but i-its not the first movie to feature Black superheroes!!
>*posts mediocore literally who tier movies nobody ever heard of*

>>93273063
You've never seen Blade?

also, just because you've never heard of them doesn't mean you're not a retard

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>>93273063
>Blade
>Hancock
>Literally who's

Who were you trying to fool, anon?

>>93271113
>showcase magnificent Black culture & history
>fictional sci-fi African nation invented by a Jewish guy

Uh-huh.

Static Shock

>>93271694
And asians.

But since blacks complain the loudest they get all the special treatment.

>>93271113
Idk m8, i liked Blade a lot

>>93272968
>Will smith

>Black

Anon are you memeing or just retardo

>>93273127
>fiction created by jews

Seems like a pretty accurate portrayal of Sub-Saharan culture and history to me.

>>93273063
I'm sorry your parents sheltered you so hard.

Unless you were just born after the 90's. In which case, I'm even more sorry for you.

Why is America the only country with this "black culture" when everywhere else black people are just citizens?

>>93273375
America's too large. Two people who live in England can both relate to what it's like to be English but a person from New York has absolutely no idea what it's like to be a person from Wyoming.

So we have to figure out ways to divide ourselves into psychologically manageable smaller groups.

>>93273375
because muh slavery

>>93271968
Wakanada only got its way because alien technology and vibranium.
It was a coincidence, not a feat

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>>Wah wah Black People

When are we gonna get a full on Asian superhero thing?

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>>93273441
>even in Marvel Africans only get where they are because of (cosmic) hand outs

>>93273429
Funny how other ethnicities that had to deal with slavery turned out just fine while most of the Black Americans ended up becoming ghetto trash that contribute nothing to the society.

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>It's a "/co/ takes the obvious fucking /pol/ bait again" episode

Jesus Christ does nobody here have a brain

>>93273375
Black People in America failed to create a name and identity for themselves, now wants whitey to solve their own self inflicted problems. That's why you have people like Spike Lee, Cornell West, Dryson, and Melissa Perry Harris complaining about race despite being well off blacks.

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>>93273602
>Ignoring that, during American slavery, learning how to read was condemned with death
>Ignoring that American slavery was racial, and about dehumanizing slaves on every conceivable level

>>93271113
>movie
>/co/

>>93273717
Chinese railroad workers?

>>93274040
lol chinese and indians don't count

>>93274040
>workers
said it yourself not slaves

>>93273717
400 year slavery of the Greeks by the Ottomans?

>>93274127
that's the cool word they used because they knew they couldn't use the word "slave", working for zero money and until you drop dead doesn't sound like a very well paid job.

>>93273063
>say something
>prove it
Oh man, bunch of cunts.

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>>93271113
>black
>black
>black
So, it's finally happened. I can no longer see the word "black" without being annoyed. Time to quit the internet for a week or two, I guess.

>>93273469
Never, because Asians don't all suffer from a bizarre mix of superiority and inferiority complexes.
Also, because they have wuxia, sentai and whatever else other countries produce.

>>93274196
>Greeks
>Not niggers of Europe

>Thread still up
I'm impressed. Guess /co/mblr is a load of shit.

>>93275269
Or the janitors think it's a legitimate topic for a discussion because they only screen the front page, MAYBE the catalog.

Why are bait threads so overrepresented on /co/?

>>93275295
It kind of works as a containment thread for the incessant whining, in theory.

>>93273063
Superhero movies weren't big if you weren't superman/batman/spiderman

>>93272138

It was fucking terrible. Clancy Brown was the most interesting character and they killed him in the pilot.

>>93275215
>shaped the Western World
>lol ur not white xD

Why are NordCucks so insecure?

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>>93275199
>Never, because Asians don't all suffer from a bizarre mix of superiority and inferiority complexes.

>>93274040
>Chinese railroad workers
>Worse than slavery

>>93272030
Black Panther was made by (((Stan Lee))
Really makes me think

>>93272968
What a fucking disappointment desu. The movie went to shit the moment Charlize threw Will through a wall

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>>93273063
>never heard about Blade

>>93273190
Maybe if you chinks complained more instead of kissing up to white people yoh would get somewhere. You only have yourselves to blame. Don't put your lack of initiative on us.

>>93273190
Fuck you Lee, you already got over nine thousand kung fu movies and animes

>>93275474
>Implying today's lazy shitskins have anything to do with ancient Greece
WE WUZ PLATOS N SHIT

>>93271113
tried that
Mighty Avengers
/thread

The problem is sans Luke Cage, everyone's a worldbreaker.
Black Panther is basically batman with batman gambits on steroids so there is little conflict; much of it has to be internal-every bp conflict no longer focuses on the opposition so much as "muh people why am i such a shit leader" since the doomshit

I really don't know how the Mighty Avengers is a thing with two storybreaking characters.

>TL;DR
You don't see most of them because they are overcompensated with batman gambits or for the same reason as Sentry. Falcon is the only one who could carry a story so he's promoted more.

>>93273717
>As opposed to non racial slavery, which is about high fives and reasonable working hours

>>93275762
Not what I said anon. But (you) didn't specify the time period. But still, the young crop that's moving to the US/UK/EU hasgreat credentials and is sought after. Not everyone is a lazy fuck, and the "shitskin" is so wrong I won't even dignify it.

But hey, whatever makes you feel better Varg. Go back to your huts and sticks now, go on, shoo!

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>>93273602
Slavery was enacted differently depending on who did the enslaving, not to mention that U.S. laws basically made it so blacks were not considered equals legally until the 60s, and seeing how that was fifty years ago (relative to hundreds of years of mistreatment) naturally it's going to take some time for them to catch up.
tbqh they're probably not going to though

>>93275762
>falling for this meme
Read a book, modern Greeks genetically close to all ex colines of ancient greece,evidence shows that is the same race.

>>93273063
Do you not know how important Blade was for Marvel.
Know what else Marvel had going for them at that time? Howard the Duck. That's it. It was the first successful movie they ever made

>>93275624
>Movie about a white man cucking a black god out of his wife
>Bad in any sense of the word.
You need to get your priorities straight, son.

>>93271694
>It's the Hispanics who are being fucked over.
We've been though this /co/, no they're not, you just notice them more because you don't like blacks.

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>>93275872
Cucking memes aside the love story bullshit really ruined it.

>>93275941
Its been years since I've seen it, but thinking back, yeah I think you're right. The movie was about Hancock's problems with himself before the whole "God's separated by tragedy" stuff came into the plot.

Its like he was given a pass on having to overcome the fact that he was a shithead.

>>93275941
Yes, if they simply avoided it would be a pretty good movie.

>>93275814
>The solution?
Revive marvel's cosmic sector;
Wouldn't work as we saw in Starbrand and Nightmask(an additional black character btw).

Otherwise who the fuck is going to stop Monica in the nanosecond she'd end an event? Who is going to stop Blue Marvel.

Look at the bullshit they pulled by locking Quasar, Monica, Blue Marvel, etc every other story breaker out of earth JUST so they could have an event-starbrand could fuck the shield up easily, but why can't he? PIS...because he would destroy events.

Moon girl probably won't be seen too much in anything gruesome, different audience and pretty fucked up to expose a child to some crazy shit.

Also Miles and RiRi exist, which i like.
There is no underrepresentation.

There is a lack of variety within the actual characters.
Either they are all kiddies to appeal to Bendis' kids.
Or they are overpowered as fuck to be placed in events, sans luke cage/capfalc and a few others.

>>93271113
>Also
>This is pretty much the first superhero movie to feature Black protagonist and showcase magnificent Black culture & history.
Wew lad this is bait.
This is a completely fabricated history of a fictional african country with african caricatures running around with technology anachronistic to their surroundings
The first "superhero movie" that was really prominent and kicked off all of these marvel movies had a black protagonist, Blade.

Meanwhile in DC their black characters are shit-but I'm biased, all of their characters are pretty shit and/or overpowered to the point the writers regularly have to evoke PIS etc

>>93275199
Both of your points are flawed. I'm halfjap and I didn't grow up knowing about SS or KR, it was just Power Rangers and the usual D.C. and Marvel cartoons that were airing that I watched. Also being halfu, there weren't a ton of authentic Japanese foods on the table so I grew up and didn't have a taste for those things. A lot of Asian buddies would laugh at how white washed I was.

I only know/enjoy things that are Tokushit and Jap cuisine now because I actively had to search them out and discover them.

>>93272052
>Movies execs only back...

Fixed. Its the same reason why MCU movies follow their copy pasta formula There are plenty of actors/film makers who given the chance would do shit outside the standard black hole if they can get the backing and audience.

>>93273375
Because everywhere else is mono race or too small to give a fuck about.

You think anyone here really give a fuck about the struggles of african-cubans or african-brazilians vs. their white counterparts?

>>93275215
>niggers of Europe
>not the Irish

>>93274040
I didn't know the Chinese were ran out of town for getting elected to political office or had laws especially targeted at them.

I'd legit like to know more about the abuse they underwent to ensure that the average Chinese american could not get ahead in life.

>>93274196
From the little of EU I know about, they seem like a modern day welfare state constantly on the verge of fail. As a result their pretty much the EU's bitch and ethopia/egypt tier in productivity.

>>93275814
Eh I think Marvel has enough established D< listers to pick one, staple together a story, and black/yelllow/whatever wash as they see fit.

Would you really be pissed if Gravity was suddenly getting a movie but now had stronger native american ties?

>>93275739
That's because we make those, Jamal.

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>>93271113
>black """"culture""""
>they literally have to invent a fake location because every single black community, city, and nation is utter shit

>>93271653
>for like 13% of the population
I love how people always bring up the 13% as if black people make up anywhere near 13% of writers, cartoonists, producers, actors, directors, characters, etc. If the American entertainment industry had race and gender proportions equal to the US population things would look WAY different.

>>93271792
>The other groups wait and either reap the benefits of the Blacks struggle or play kiss up to whites.

Fucking this! I'd love for Asians and Hispanics and other races to get more representation. But every time black people try to something for ourselves we get people of other races haranguing us for not doing THEIR activism for them. I agree that black people should extend a helping hand to other races (I'd wager a hispanic or Asian is more likely to get a fair shake from a black person in the industry than a white one) but we can't be expected to do everything for them.

>>93273190
>But since blacks complain the loudest they get all the special treatment.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

>>93277817
Black people are actually over-represented in US entertainment.

>>93277233
back to r/the_donald or r/pol, whichever you prefer bigot

>>93277899
Source?
And it's not enough if it's just one specific area of US entertainment. There's gotta be representation in places where they're in positions to actually have a decent amount of creative and financial control.

>>93277899
Whites are as well but you always overlook that fact.

>>93278031
Here's an ancient article from UCLA http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/African-Americans-Remain-Overrepresented-3250
I imagine black people have all the financial and creative control they want at BET. When it comes to other places, you're dealing with an extremely competitive environment where tens/hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.

>>93278122
This is definitely outdated. It studied the industry in 2001, and says most of the black actors are concentrated on sitcoms and mostly on the UPN network. This was back during the period between the 90s and early 2000s when there were a ton of black sitcoms on the air. After that period black sitcoms were A LOT more scarce. And it only mentions actors when to get a proper picture of representation we need to look at all levels of production.

>BET
That's just a single TV network. It cannot and should not carry the whole American entertainment industry in terms of black representation.

>>93278408
A company's ultimate responsibility is to deliver as much profit as it can. When there's a choice between a mediocre affirmative action hire or a slightly more competent white guy, they're going to go with the latter.

>>93271113
Black Panther isn't Black, he's African

I get that they used rap music in the trailer to guarantee the African American audience but it rubbed me the wrong way that they couldn't find some appopriate modern African music to play

Africans and Black people are basically different races and cultures altogether in my book.
Example: Africans are still firmly based in animism with elements/customs of Abrahamic religions necessarily spreading as they do.
African Americans on the other hand are firmly based are firmly invested in American Christian traditions and the moral values and systems that go along with that.

Like Black Panther himself will not act the way most Black People think a 'black' super hero should

>>93271968
no it wouldn't you stupid, worthless nigger

>>93273063
>mediocrity negates proof
Just because someone murders another in a mediocre way doesn't mean that person isn't a murderer you shithead
Go back to whatever Tumblr refugee site you came from

>>93278506
The mistake you're making is assuming that Hollywood is a perfect meritocracy and any attempt at diversifying it would make it less so.

Hollywood hires thousands of mediocre nobodies every year. In fact, MOST people who work in Hollywood are mediocre nobodies. The "Well, we had to get Scarlett Johansonn to play The Major because she's a big star" situations are a teeny minority.

But when you look at all the mediocre nobodies who just happen to not be white then suddenly we gotta start talking about "risk" and "competency" and "merit."

>>93271148
>>93271626
It's a /Pol/ troll

>>93278719
Hollywood is full of bleeding heart liberals, they're not deliberately snubbing black people. This is the best of what they have, as they've determined it based on their desire to make the most profit possible. Thanks to the Dunning-Kruger people are not the best judge of their actual abilities.

>>93273063
You're wrong, but you're also a faggot

>>93273063
You NEVER once seen Blade?

>>93271113
>Why are Black people so underrepresented in /co/ media?
Because historically they weren't considered a real core audience that could afford to dollar vote until the late 80s, by then most of the comic book characters we know today had been created. And as we know comic book fans hate new characters so what we have is what we get pretty much, unless we latch on to lackluster characters like Miles Morales hoping that they get better.

The thing these threads never seem to admit to is the fact that the people screaming loudest for representation and diversity are upper class whites from Portland and California that feel guilty that they've never had to work for a thing in their life so they want to crusade.

>>93279750
Why must you turn this Cantonese backgammon forum into a den of lies?

>>93271113
>magnificent Black culture & history.
What culture and history?
It's a fucking superhero.

>>93279801
Have you never seen the Huffpo staff photo?

>>93281209
WELP THAT SETTLES IT

Minorities actually don't give a shit about seeing minorities in TV, movies and comics.

It was white people the whole time.

The smoking gun? Huffington Post. Glad that was settled.

>>93281531
If you are not capable of seeing yourself reflected in people of other races it's obvious you are a misogynistic racist, sexist, xenophobic MRA.

>>93277899
Whites are too.

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>>93283601
HOW DARE YOU