I really need for y'all to stop blaming Black Panther 4 being more successful than your own movie
How about we leave the vilification of Black Panther and black people’s support of Black Panther in 2018. Black panther did so well because black people as a whole came together and supported it. No matter where we were from. whether we were afro-latinas, Africans, African Americans, afro-Irish, afro-cuban, afro-indian and etc. it didn’t matter we all came together to support a movie featuring predominantly dark skin black people.
Not to mention the fact that some of the movies that you guys are flaming didn’t do as well as they should have because black people didn’t support them as much as black panther are actually doing quite well. For instance Aquaman is doing exceptionally well. As of January 2nd 2019 Aquaman has grossed 846.3 million worldwide. So these Aquaman deserves more support post are absolutely ridiculous. Aquaman is doing amazing right now. People seem to love the movie it seems to only get good reviews. Y'all are honestly just looking for a reason to blame black people for something.
Now as for movies like Coco and crazy Rich Asians that is still not black people’s fault. Like I said in the beginning black panther did so well because black people supported it. I remember when Coco first came out I’m afro-latina and I barely heard any Hispanic people talking about that movie whether they were Mexican or not. I also remember when crazy Rich Asians came out and I remember that most of the posts that I saw talking about crazy Rich Asians we’re coming from non asians. There were barely any Asian people talking about supporting this movie. I barely saw any post saying that everybody who identified as Spanish or Hispanic no matter where they’re from should go and see Coco. Like I did for Black Panther. And that is not black people’s fault.
Coco only made 154.4 million worldwide. Crazy Rich Asians only made 238 million. Maybe instead of blaming the lack of success of your own movies on black people and black panther you should ask yourselves why didn’t Asian people come out and support crazy Rich Asians like black people did? Why didn’t Hispanic people and people of Spanish descent and anyone who identifies as Spanish come out and support Coco like black people? Our movie did so well because we supported it. And from that support we have started a movement. now film companies are busting their asses to put black people in their movies because they now see that when black people have proper representation we will come out in droves to support.
I am a huge believer in supporting all people of color and I absolutely adore Constance Wu and Jason Momoa. And when Coco,Aquaman and crazy Rich Asians came out I had and still have every intention of seeing them but I’m tired of y'all trying to act like black people should feel bad for supporting our own movies. I’m tired of y'all trying to Guilt us supporting your movies just because your people won’t. If you want something you have to fight for it. That’s something that black people we have known since forever. I think some of y'all need to start realizing that too.
For example the movie Ghost in the Shell didn’t really make that much but one thing I will always remember about that movie is the way in which so many Asian people supported the whitewashing of an Asian character. I also remember how so many people of color especially black people came together and complained and protested the white washing of the movie on the behalf of Asian people and we ended up looking stupid. We cannot fight your battles for you. We can be allies and help you fight but we cannot fight your battles for you. The first step to changing things like this is to fight. You have to show companies that you will not support ,financially, colorism anymore. Black people have been fighting for representation and fighting just to be able to live and not get killed for years and years and years. Y'all need to do the same thing. Why do you think that suddenly so many companies in the west and oversees all around the world are starting to include darker skin tones in their shade ranges? why do you think that so many movies are starting to include darker people? Because they now see that failing to do so can and WILL lose them money.