when I was a kid my dad introduced me to T'Challa, the Black Panther. It was one of the first series I really stuck with, one that my dad really wanted me to read! And of course, I was completely in awe of him and his entire background and culture! He was a an African King of a nation that was smarter, more powerful, more culturally infused of both the past and the present than America! And he was not King by inheritance, but rather of a show of skill and training in battle for the title! 

But I'm not here to talk about Black Panther that's longer post for a longer time.

Instead I want to talk about this scene from Issue 11 of the 2005 reboot

An all Black Super-Hero team. It was something that always stuck to the back of my mind and went to bed dreaming off. A superhero team of characters who shared my skin tone, my looks, my culture. Though while  issue 11 featured Luke Cage, Falcon, and Black Panther and the next few had Monica Rambeau (Spectrum), Doctor Voodoo, Blade, and Storm, I never thought it'd be a reality. I mean even as a kid of 11 I knew that it was impossible for me to be president. Why would the comic industry bother to make an all Black Superhero team?

For a long time, as the last couple of years have gone by, my mind has gone back to the this panel. It always comes to mind when I see Luke Cage or hear of Falcon actually starring in something. Still I never deemed it as a possibility, especially when I learned what racism was and how deeply rooted it's in society. 

And then too things happened that changed the view of that little 11 kid. Obviously, the first Obama being president for 2 terms.

The second being the news of this

A mostly Black Avengers team run by Luke Cage, Marvel's own steel-skinned sweetheart. I didn't believe it at first. Why would I? And then I saw the cover above and my breath hitched and I teared up a bit. I felt a flood of emotions and a tiny sense that things my honestly be changing in the world. Because the biggest thing to me about this, to that little kid in my heart who never quite grew up, is that PoC can be heroes too. That they can do good and change the world for the better like the best of them. That they matter. That they exist. That their is a hero in all of them.

Am I getting my hopes up? I did it once and look how things turned out. All in all I'm mighty excited for what's to come this fall!

when I was a kid my dad introduced me to T'Challa, the Black Panther. It was one of the first series I really stuck with, one that my dad really wanted me to read! And of course, I was completely in awe of him and his entire background and culture! He was a an African King of a nation that was smarter, more powerful, more culturally infused of both the past and the present than America! And he was not King by inheritance, but rather of a show of skill and training in battle for the title! 

But I'm not here to talk about Black Panther that's longer post for a longer time.

Instead I want to talk about this scene from Issue 11 of the 2005 reboot

An all Black Super-Hero team. It was something that always stuck to the back of my mind and went to bed dreaming off. A superhero team of characters who shared my skin tone, my looks, my culture. Though while  issue 11 featured Luke Cage, Falcon, and Black Panther and the next few had Monica Rambeau (Spectrum), Doctor Voodoo, Blade, and Storm, I never thought it'd be a reality. I mean even as a kid of 11 I knew that it was impossible for me to be president. Why would the comic industry bother to make an all Black Superhero team?

For a long time, as the last couple of years have gone by, my mind has gone back to the this panel. It always comes to mind when I see Luke Cage or hear of Falcon actually starring in something. Still I never deemed it as a possibility, especially when I learned what racism was and how deeply rooted it's in society. 

And then too things happened that changed the view of that little 11 kid. Obviously, the first Obama being president for 2 terms.

The second being the news of this

A mostly Black Avengers team run by Luke Cage, Marvel's own steel-skinned sweetheart. I didn't believe it at first. Why would I? And then I saw the cover above and my breath hitched and I teared up a bit. I felt a flood of emotions and a tiny sense that things my honestly be changing in the world. Because the biggest thing to me about this, to that little kid in my heart who never quite grew up, is that PoC can be heroes too. That they can do good and change the world for the better like the best of them. That they matter. That they exist. That their is a hero in all of them.

Am I getting my hopes up? I did it once and look how things turned out. All in all I'm mighty excited for what's to come this fall!