>>100432184Blaxploitation didn't start in the 70's. It started before that, as a way to make money from the growing civil rights movement which also began before the 70's. You remember when they did the new Ghostbusters film, and said that seeing it would support women? That's what Blaxploitation was.
Black Panther first showed up as a tag-along to the avengers, and it was a few years before he started doing anything solo. Wakanda is this vaguely African nation that does a bunch of stereotypical African things while also being more advanced than anyone. It seems paradoxical because Wakanda being African was a point of emphasis, but the stereotype for Africa was basically "you know, like the Zulu".
Now today, we're wrapped up in stereotypes again. The whites are like this, the blacks are like that. Stratifying people into social hierarchies based on their skin color is in vogue again, but now, weirdly, it's more often the "progressive" side of politics doing it, and there's been a revival of the white nationalist bullshit because people have been saying, "if you don't like these stereotypes and generalizations about gender and race, you're with the nazis" or whatever.
Comics did this then, and they're doing it again. I don't know if you're old enough to remember Apache Chief, Samurai, or El Dorado in the old Super Friends cartoon made by Hanna Barbara, but there was a whole era of really stupid shit made by stupid people that relied on backwards generalizations to somehow "promote" equality even though those characters didn't properly represent anyone.
The ones that stand out and had more soul and wit to them generally survived on, but the really retarded ones were forgotten to time because nobody honestly cherished them.
I don't know where I'm going with this, but point is - you're wrong. Eras change. People loved GI Joe during peace time, but during Vietnam sales tanked.
