My fellow white people are up to racist white people shit re: Falcon and the Winter Soldier on this site
No one was quiet about the fact that the show is going to deal with race [EDIT to clairfy: no one involved with the show]. I’d argue that you really can’t have this show without going into race. Because let’s be real, fictionalized US or not, what happened when Sam handed over the shield to the museum wasn’t surprising. It’d be what happened if Captain America were real and this played out.
Marvel introducing Isaiah is “too dark”? We’re talking about the same Marvel right? Where storylines include a child being raised to be an assassin and being forcibly sterilized upon reaching adulthood? Not that they’re on the same level at all, but just so we’re clear that we’re talking about the same Marvel. So, y’know, your argument about it being too dark is just not gonna hold up for me.
Fellow white people, please do better. And stop saying that a white man from the 1940s would know more about racism than a black man who grew up in the US and actually y’know, experienced racism? Just a thought. Episode 2 literally had a scene where Sam was racially profiled and it was only the fact that he was Falcon that resulted in the cops backing off.
If you genuinely thought the show wasn’t going to talk about race you haven’t been paying attention. Or you wanted to keep your head in the sand instead of actually thinking critically about a reality that we don’t experience as white people. We don’t get racially profiled. We don’t get experimented on by our government because we’re viewed as less then and expendable (see: Tuskegee Experiment/Study). So, again, if you think Bucky Barnes knows more about racism than Sam Wilson, that this show shouldn’t talk about race and just pretend that the US is some perfect, utopian society where racism doesn’t exist, see yourself to the door and don’t look back.
And if I’m overstepping here, please, let me know!
