“Trayvon Martin’s flight suit tells the story of a dream of space flight ended tragically by earthbound violence”… [More]
Along with Lt. Uhura’s uniform Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther costume…
Sadly, the venerable Smithsonian has gone the way of Scientific American: Politicized “progressive” dreck.
Cosplay is now “achievement” enough. We’re supposed to believe if not for “a series of unfortunate events,” the life path the martyred Mr. Martin had set for himself was this close to being able to do the calculations that brought Apollo 13 home.
Forget that Uhura, and everything she said were products of white producers and writers, with no small amount of politically correct network pressure to “cast Negroes” in the first place, and that Wakanda and T’Challa were African stereotypes created by Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber) and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg).
Instead, sell the idea that playing make believe is a claim to entitlement. When I was, like six, I remember using a towel for a cape, sticking my arms out in front of me, making whooshing sounds through my mouth, running through the yard and pretending I was Superman. This is every bit as childish.
So, naturally, Essence puts on a towel and runs with it.
I’ve heard it called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” but it’s more destructively insidious and subversive than that, victimizing those who believe the DEI Stooge Syndrome is their royal road to enfranchisement, and those it has the power to make political and economic demands on.
The President of United Earth would approve.
[Via WiscoDave]
