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The tall man
It amazes me how easily some think a mutant can just walk away from their human family to go join a bunch of strangers who they have nothing in common with aside from a random x-gene. Let's say a young black man who is extremely close to his family, active in his community and fights for social justice and change becomes a mutant. Then Xavier, Scott or Magneto shows up and says come with us, we're your "true" family now, what is that new mutant suppose to do? Just leave his close knit black family, his black community to go live on white mutant island? His entire life was lived as a black male, all his experiences was as a black male, now he is suppose to put aside his blackness to live as a mutant first. He is now suppose to see his loving family as human enemies who want to kill him, he is now suppose to abandon his community where he fought for change and dignity (and where he could use his newfound abilities to benefit his community) to go become some foot soldier in a mutant army. Are we suppose to think that he would gladly accept that proposition, that any mutant in a similar position would so easily accept that? Black mothers and grandmothers are very close to black sons and grandsons, to think that a young black male would turn away from them or consider a bunch of predominantly white mutants as their true family over their real ones is absurd. This notion being presented that all mutants on earth is some giant hivemind that all believe the same thing, are all on the same page, that not one among them has any reservations about what's happening is hard to accept. Mutants are individuals with their own thoughts, desires and motivations. Not all will accept the Krakoa option, not all will follow or agree with Xavier, not all will leave their families and consider strangers their real family. Realistically that young black male mutant will not be on Krakoa, he will not accept that now that he has powers means he gives up all that he knows, all that matters to him and he holds dear. He may be mutant but he is a black man first and foremost, and no stranger who can read minds or teleport will ever be closer to him than his own human mother. HOX/POX is essentially saying mutants have to choose and I think objectivity many mutants would not choose Krakoa. This is why I can never accept that in the MU someone like white, rich, privileged, elitist Emma Frost or blonde haired blue eyed Alex Summers experiences more racism, bigotry and prejudice because they're a mutant than Sam Wilson, Rage or any black person. It dosen't hold up.
Don't let anyone else hold the candle that lights the way to your future because only you can sustain the flame.
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