Emmett Till Eclipsed by The Black Panther

Emmett Till Eclipsed by The Black Panther

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Last year, so many people went wild about The Black Panther. They went wild for Wakanda. They all seemed to forget that Wakanda, Africa is not real. You know what was real: The reopening of the case of the murder of Emmett Till. Based on the research of Timothy B. Tyson for his book The Blood of Emmett Till in which Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Donham, admitted that she lied, The F.B.I. reopened Emmett Till’s case last year. In a quote from Jason Parham’s Emmett Till’s Murder: What Really Happened That day in the Store?, a book review of Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till, Carolyn Donham says:

Till never “grabbed her around the waist and uttered obscenities,” as she had avowed on the witness stand. “You tell these stories for so long that they seem true,” she confesses early in the book, “but that part is not true.” And so we are left with a sobering certainty, one that even Bryant herself is forced to concede to Tyson, more than 50 years later: “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”

This was groundbreaking news that everyone should have been discussing. Yet, very few focused on this reality in America. Instead, they chose to focus on a fantasy world called Wakanda in Africa. Most disappointing were the black news anchors and political pundits of mainstream media incessantly talking about the Black Panther while barely mentioning Emmett Till or the liar that caused him to be killed and killed in such a vile way. The way that he was murdered was unthinkable. How could she live the rest of her wretched life knowing that she caused the murder of an innocent person? Instead of constantly discussing the injustice that cost Emmett Till his life, the Black mainstream media preferred to shuck and jive about the Black Panther as if its box office success were some phenomenal victory for Black people. We didn’t get any of that money, Disney got that money.

Too many people were focused on the wrong, frivolous, silly thing AS USUAL. All that foolishness about hip-hop, sports, Caepernick been wronged, thots, and other garbage like this Black Panther foolishness took priority over a real issue that impacts all of us, especially Emmett Till and his family. Kamala Harris was even using the panther to pander for Black votes, which is one reason why we aren’t taking her seriously. We aren’t stupid. I got so tired of Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan going on and on about The Black Panther. They should have felt awkward that the main thing that they were being allowed to discuss, aside from bashing President Trump, was a marvel comic book character and his homeland. They didn’t even do good job of doing that. Let’s look at the history of The Black Panther.

The Beginning of The Black Panther

From its beginning, the Black Panther comic was racist. In Marvel’s universe, a man who is called Killmonger Apeman is the villain of the comic Black Panther. In reality, he would be a fighter for the oppressed and disenfranchised Blacks across the African diaspora, particularly here in America. He’d know how to and want to help us using Vibranium, as did his father. Yet, the selfish, elitist Wakandans would rather pretend to be poor and keep the Vibranium to themselves. Worst of all, they looked at Blacks in need as hopeless burdens who could potentially make their society a target for the extraction of Vibranium if they reached out to them. Rather, than covertly building an alliance with Blacks in need to strengthen themselves from a population and sociopolitical standpoint, they would rather be fearful and secretive. They never think about the possibility of the Vibranium running out or ceasing to be effective for some reason. Killmonger Apeman was considered to be savage because, it seems in the marvel universe, if you’re Black and you want to help other Blacks and vulnerable peoples, unless you allowed yourself to be controlled by a member of the majority group, you were considered a savage apeman.

In the Darkness of the Eclipse

Many were so blinded by dillusions of grandeur by living vicariously through the Wakandans that they didn’t see that the Wakandans were the real enemy. Seriously, the Wakandans are the black bourgeoisie elitists. They constantly work against the best interests of the rest of us Foundational Black Americans, Americans who are Descendants of the Slaves that were sold during the trans-atlantic slave trade and, in the context of discussing this comic and the movie based upon it, the other disenfranchised descendants of Africans slaves whose ancestors were also sold elsewhere across the diaspora in the transatlantic slave trade. We would be considered the proletariats – the peasants. Though, W.E.B. DuBois would call the proletariats of African diaspora “the ignorant negro masses.”

Through the lens of Carter G. Woodson (he was elitist, yet changed later on), the black elitists are the educated mal-contents who learned everything except to how legitimately provide a living for themselves in practical ways. So, instead they hoard to themselves whatever resource on which they can lay their hands while accepting mediocre amounts of rewards to maintain the status quo of various aspects of the discriminatory supremacy of whomever the dominant group may be. They are the Wakandans. Like the Wakandans they are often underservingly celebrated by the masses all because they seem rich and powerful. They have no real integrity. Greed and fear is the master of these elitists in fiction and reality.

The Pompous and the Misguided

Pitifully, people seemed interested in discussing the reopening of Emmett Till’s case mostly when they could use it to garner attention for themselves. Otherwise, it was all about Wakanda. It was all about the Black Panther. This Oscar season, during Black History Month, people are, again, focused on the Black Panther. This is the perfect time to continually discuss the reopening of Emmett Till’s, however people are focusing on the Black Panther and will get in an uproar if it doesn’t win an Oscar – as if that really matters.

If you want to know more about Timothy B. Tyson’s book visit the Jason Parham’s The New York Times book review, Emmett Till’s Murder: What Really Happened That Day in the Store?

If you want to buy Timothy B. Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till, visit The Blood of Emmett Till