Originally Posted by
Ezyo1000
I think your taking it out of context the full scope of what Maj was saying. He also didn't all ALL at of their African American cousins. He said some. Which is a big difference. He also goes on to reference the Black panther revolution Tulsa massacre, aka the destruction of Black Wall Street, Fred Hampton and the civil rights movement. He isn't saying that every black person is ignorant of their own strength.
But getting to the rest of your post since I'm not going to dive into all that as this is the BP thread.
The problem with the issue isn't that Coates is trying to go with the "Don't think you can't be fooled" but, like the entirety of his run, everything he is trying to push does not work in the Black Panther mythos you mention the rape camps and "beating the dead horse into sawdust" well you and others may see it as a one and done deal but for others stuff like that never stopped. It wasn't just oh there's a small camp on the outskirts of Wakanda, and jne guy was doing it that T'Challa or even the DM found. No they were giant ass rape treehouses, which is another thing in that image but a huge operation that apparently was able to run without issue abd T'Challa never saw it. And when it was finally brought up by the Royal family what do we get? Shuri telling two women, a teenage and an elderly woman, you should of accepted your fate and been raped and killed do the golden city can stand? Bullisht T'Challa, in Character would of checked Shuri for that, Shuri would NEVER say that to her own people.
And that isht just continued throughout the arcs. Wakanda was created to be an anticolonizer message for Africa. What do we get? Wakanda id no different then the rest of the world but are also hypocrites for doing the same thing.
Jumping to S3. Same issues. In order to believe the story Coates had to first dumb T'Challa down to ridiculous levels. Like reduce his IQ by 40%. Not even looking at continuity, but T'Challas personality and Character traits, he would of been suspicious by the get go, ESPECIALLY if he felt an unexplainable sadness.
Then since we know T'Challa is always prepared and two steps ahead, he leaves nothing to chance. The second he felt uneasy he would investigate. Doubly so when Achebe told him about the betrayal, coupled with his unease? Any normal person would start putting pieces together or investigating. You mean to tell me the shrewdest man alive ignores all that? For what? Because it's the Wakanda dream made reality? T'Challa has had zero issues calling out isht Wakanda has done. Dude worshipped his father and still called out the isht he did and corrected it. But now all of a sudden he doesn't want to??
Also going back to Achebe, this point defines how lazy Coates was writing this explanation. He has T'Challa state he doesn't believe Achebe because lack of proof, intrigue of the court, and 616 Achebe is a madman, YET he believes N'Jadaka, who 616 version is a had threaten the throne and his people on multiple occasions and actually took the throne at one point, because...?? This would of made more sense if this Character was named emperor T'Chaka, or empress Shuri, people who his version he would know would not do that.
Now finally we go to Storm comment about him being unable to see it because he grew up privileged. First off he didn't have a cushion life as he was forced to grow up fast, he also took a walkabout without his wealth, and "privilege" to experience the world and to survive on his own. He has also liberated a entire planet injected with slavery, called out the inhumans for slavery, fought the KKK, and personally experienced racism with he was attacked by white people. So where is this whole nonsense about not being able to see it?
Again, this whole thing does not work with the BP mythos. And we have seen it doesn't given the massive amounts of retcons and ignoring continuity and character traits to try and fit this agenda in the story.
So if you like it fine that's your deal. But some of us here aren't buying his explanation (which is complete bullisht, and if he actually out some effort into it, could of come up with a believable way that T'Challa could of been fooled, it's actually not hard) because it's forced and lazy