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Aren't the Wakandans a liiiiiittle bit too arrogant and conceited?


Well... if it hadn't been for that meteorite that happened to crash exactly at their location carrying that magic vibranium stuff they would still be running around hunting animals, talking with their dead ancestors, living a simple tribal life and most probably just be another "underdeveloped" African country.

So in other words, all their incredible wealth and magically advanced technology, their shining megacities, weapons etc. didn't come from hard, tenacious research and brainpower over the decades and centuries (like in the rest of the world) but from a pure coincidence? Hm..........

(Reminds me a bit of certain countries in a certain region of the world who happen to sit on incredible oil fields, thereby gaining an amount of power and importance in the world they would never ever have achieved without it.
Well... so if it hadn't been for those oil deposits that happened to form exactly at their location they would still be running around hunting animals, talking with their dead ancestors, living a simple tribal life and most probably just be another "underdeveloped" Middle Eastern country.)


---> So what does that tell us: It's hard not to see this film as carrying a "black agenda", so the oppressed black people all over the world finally are in a way "superior" to whites because they can say, "Hey look at our incredible technology, WE are in fact superior to the stupid white America / (white?) rest of the world" etc. etc. ... - and they could achieve this status just because a magic meteorite was so nice as to drop down and make it all possible?

This is so pathetic in my opinion because for me it really says: "We wouldn't have made it without that meteorite. That vibrator-whatever stuff made it all happen...."


Mind you: This is not meant to offend anybody on purpose but the naked facts are there, I would say... Comments welcome!

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If any people on Earth have a right to be arrogant, they do!

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Oh really? How so...?

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Uh, because they developed the most advanced technology in the world? And managed to hide it from the rest of us low-tech slobs for decades?

And no, they aren't advanced just because they had vibranium, they're advanced because they used it brilliantly. I mean what did the US do with it's vibranium? Beat it into a disc and gave it to the strongest guy in the army, that's what, while the Wakandans made into virtual cars and hologram communication and spaceships.

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Still no need to get arrogant, you know...;-)

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Well, they did decide to get a bit less arrogant at the end of "Black Panther".

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Yet Thanos still kicked their asses.

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White South Africans were supposed to be arrogant to the primative blacks they colonized?

Or is this just some one-way social justice BS?

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You cant stand it when black people are successful and prosperous! You're probably one of those people who framed OJ.

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If it doesn't fit you must acquit... ;-)

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"framed OJ"

You need to go to Hollywood and help them write comedy. Nothing they've done recently is as funny as your comment!

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