the ever changing world of pop culture two thousand and eighteen will go down in the history books as one of the standout years in the new renaissance of black culture like a phoenix rising out of the ashes galvanized by the black lives matter movement black artists entertainers and political figures have been dominating the headlines and box offices like no other time before starting with the global box office supernova was black panther even before its release last february the growing buzz around the film was deafening featuring that rarest of rare in hollywood a major studio film made with a predominantly black cast and crew black panther broke down barriers and defeated expectations delivering a hero's journey to a marginalized movie going audience so often resigned to seeing the characters that look like them cast as the sidekick or comic relief to the white character in the lead role but it wasn't just the movie screens that were showcasing the new black renaissance music sod's revolutions as well with the continued rise of artists like

r.d. b. and childish gambino challenging the narrative and party b. we saw a powerful black woman who wasn't beyond say revolutionized the hip hop game and once again proved that talent drive and fearlessness can indeed overcome the patriarchy that dominates the rap game and the cardi b. was standing tall dominating the charts over the corporate song birds like taylor swift a shot of truth like a diamond bullet between the eyes was delivered by actor and rapper donald driver donald glover aka childish gambino who song and music video this is america perfectly encapsulated the black experience in these united states of america in the early twenty first century so today we celebrate this new renaissance of art song and film as we start watching the hawks. if you want your knowledge. at the san francisco.

the bottom. like you said i got. there. is it. an epic roar echo throughout hollywood this weekend hawk watches as the marvel universe superhero black panther was finally unleashed in theaters here in the united states and around the world and the benchmark of success in a capitalistic culture is money then without a shadow of a doubt black panther is in just four days of release a smashing success by pulling in a record breaking two hundred thirty five million dollar opening weekend at the box office black panther shatter not only box office records elaan held movie industry beliefs and a racist barrier is about the amount of green a film of color can bring in especially one featuring a black superhero fighting for the safety of his powerful and technologically

advanced african home country not exactly hollywood storytelling is bread and butter to say the least but for many black men women and children both here in the u.s. and around the world even before the film was released the success of black panther was about more than just being another hollywood hit and joining us to discuss black panthers true success is georgetown university professor chris chambers a few wow the you tube does a big price that's a big number oh it is blows away every every you know and it and you there weren't any rappers in the movie right there weren't any bizarre stereotypes in the movie there were some hard questions and issues to debate in the movie all the things that you know go counterintuitive to what hollywood just over and over again and all the years leading up so let me ask you you know why why do you believe you know why is black proud of their success this week and so much bigger than just dollar numbers like what what actually was the success it's a. perfect storm i mean we have we have the current cultural and social and

political climate that really where i think african-americans needed this kind of a pick me up but black people alone can't create these kind of domestic numbers you're going to see that repeated i mean this is a character that was invented by white people in the sixty's by stanley but i think the time is now for for for this kind of movie to be transformative and a lot of people pooh pooh movies for being transformative but if you look at the negative side look at birth of a nation look at. you know gone with the wind i mean they were culturally transformative in a negative way and colored the way we think of american history well you know a movie can do that in a positive way and i think when you have this cast this kind of writing you know it can transform people through this is step one of sort of pushing that that

idea which is an old held belief years and years in hollywood i can tell you the times last year's heisman hollywood there was one thing for certain is that any white male executive which for most of them will tell you. black movies don't make money over and over and over again you know and that they just they don't make any money overseas they just do domestically and it's fine so they're not a good investment is this sort of at that proof answer a question that you know we had after so white and then you know moonlight when you know the success of get out now black panther do you think that this is like that first prevail definitely i think we've turned a corner because this this has a broad appeal and it's a piece of a larger marvel universe so you know it's a good litmus test to overseas because if it goes to a place like china and the chinese say well we don't want to see it then they have to we've pretty much laid bare where they're coming from but i don't think that's going to happen i think that because it's a part of a larger marvel universe. and because the writing the issues you know that you're

not being hit the face with issues it's there but and you can kind of ruminate over it but you can do it in the course of this like amazing ride i think it's going to turn the corner it's going to blow away a lot of people and we're seeing this now i mean i've never heard of a hollywood exact say oh well gosh you know maybe we need to put a panther movie in between the city wars which are not going to do that but i mean now they see you know i hope that they did kill them off at the finish to war but you know now what we don't want to be here but you know you know that's going to be that they're going to be screaming or it will look if they can put you know christopher plummer you know in the ridley scott. you know what's interesting too is without giving away specifics because we believe that we want to protect spoilers here you know we won't about you know the government what they do but. what about the representation of you know the character of black

panther you know the home country where condon even the villain was eric kill mongar what made that so game changing and groundbreaking for this type of movie like what what in that representation really jumped out well you know if you look at the stories that resonate i mean look at the batman origin story of how his parents were killed or even superman coming here i mean you had these people try to make a child and kill monger into like martin luther king and malcolm x. and which is which is stupid there's no there's no comparison there are a contrast and kill monger is a psychopathic murderer but he had this in the movie you're asked to say well how do you get that way where we're in a prison when i used to read black panther when i was younger to see how could this country that had this gift of the you know the vibranium you know you know meteorite how could they sit back and watch so many of their brothers. sisters and

slaved felt for a thousand years how can they sit there and watch you know european powers come in and colonize and tear apart the continent which was which was a viable continent before you know colonialism a lot of people think the whole climate was a tarzan movie before then and it wasn't know it and i used to sit there and think well how how would they treat that and ryan coogler in this movie addresses those issues and makes you debated but he doesn't sit there and say well you know kill monger is a hero for saying i want to help all my oppressed people that he gets comes out and says the guy's a maniac but how did he become a maniac and i think that's a very compelling story there's a very compelling story most definitely there's a feminism going to we're going to i'm sure was a. favorite of the so right about so that was my big thing about this movie is that i tried to stay away from the marketing as much as possible i know what i know about the comic from before and start to like us and keeping myself open to the

story and what i what i've seen come out and what what finally sort of struck me the most is that the women these are so these are amazing women and i think even beyond what you know wonder woman dead you know for this idea of strong women this is huge an intersection feminism kind of way these are strong black women they had up armies they're not sitting there arguing over a man they're not you know fighting with each other they're fierce and bald flat beautiful and they are just you. know whether it is see you know what you're talking about his younger sister who's into us or the door and the larger who are his his bodyguards i mean that's something that you didn't even see in the comics the core of female bodyguards that were that surrounded him all the time and and quite frankly i mean you know when women in general look at this i mean these are the people that when this disruptive force comes in to tear this kingdom apart these were. men are the ones who say no we stand for the rule of law we're not

going to just go for whoever is popular you know we you know we're going to stand up for what's right and that's a very strong statement it is it is and i think it was interesting because historically i think that black women are often forgotten sometimes in the historical aspect of say the civil rights movement where you have your malcolm x.'s and that right i think sometimes the women don't get noticed for that and i think this is that moment when you realize like that was such a big part of that story it was it was it was it was you know they were the ones who were concerned with the rule of law and what was right and what was just you know what did you you know you said you kind of this is like was this something that was like the perfect storm or is this or is this something that really does have legs i think that's the most important thing i think. i mean i think it's a perfect storm in terms of the hype and the build up but i mean but marvel you know we still have to remember this this is a money making exercise this is this is this is walt this is horrible and i think

that they probably were savvy enough to see that now is the time to introduce this character break him out from from the winter soldier movie which is where you first see him and you know that you know i think not that they were breaking him out at this time but more like great we're going to break him out and all the all the stars are in alignment we're going to make money money money money money i don't know and look like good guys doing it which in a capitalistic system is the thing to do tough it is tough i mean the biggest thing for me is always like you know how much did it mean to the kids who go see exupery movies at the end of the day or for their ultimate leap for kids at the end all is that this is a minnow and i don't think it's a beautiful thing to see whether it be wonderwoman last summer or black panther this where now you suddenly have representation for little girls you know little. black men and women things like that we can look up and say ah. no i haven't i have

a superhero now who is not white who does not looks like somebody else who actually looks like then i can jump up and fall i mean it's for for women of any color children of any color and even you know ryan coogler wrote into this with kill monger even urban youth because you know this this kid became who he was because of the forces that you know there are still tearing up urban youth so i mean some kids can watch this and say you know i can tear up i can take the message that he's trying to give away from the lunacy and i don't have to be like that i can i can i can attach myself to the positive message without the anger and the destruction and i think that even that will help some kids who are watching this so well there's tons of sequels and i can't wait to see what the what that you know kind of filmmaking team doesn't that show you clearly kugler and jordan michael b. jordan are a tandem of this actor all right after that we haven't seen in a long time you know where here's these two guys getting better and better with each so yeah you know well it's one day to nerd out and yeah well you know

a lot of good you know if we were from the creator of the real. want to go through that thank you chris chambers always a pleasure take yourself and we'll be back with a sequel. as we're going to read clark watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up we continue our episode on the new black renaissance taking place here in the united states as we talk the rise of hip hop artist party b. and the message childish gambino is this is america with author and educator walk to stay tuned to watch the.

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thank. you. welcome back and now we present our discussion with author and speaker do you want guns and how respectability race and politics fit into the rise of hip hop artists like party b. take a listen i want to start and this is interesting story that came out of like the kind of rise of carter i never thought i'd be talking as we're perennially getting crushed in the culture war by ignoring the importance of the media pop culture is growing more and more accurate every year with online platforms allowing art music and pithy means to spread across the country like wildfire and influence the nation's narrative and were you flying on a magical way. the red hat and the ensuing debate fuels the nation's social media rankings and news cable shows alike and now artist donald glover delivered

a somewhat more philosophically charged pop culture critique of society's race and gun violence issues from his alter ego tell this campaign you know with many americans debating the music videos underlying message and symbolism author and educator dee walk ins joins us to weigh in on that conversation d. always a pleasure to have you on first i just go say out the gate there's a credible music video amazing. well i mean not only unlike the technical level of just pure filmmaking but just the the metaphors of the issues raised all that so i want to start and ask you you know nobody's quite on the same page because it raises so many issues that are simply brilliant visuals and a lot of metaphor you know. in mrs america what did you take away from. seeing it what did you walk away from doing the video so i felt like after watching the video . doors what we try to do in media

we see the big stories that everyone wants us to talk about. so what. what about the everyday people who are suffering who's going to tell their stories who's going to care about them who's going to love them and he showed us how you can just dangle something flash. in front of people interesting and will totally turn a blind eye to the things that we should be looking at and i think i think it was brilliant and makes me excited for our interview it is going to be when you watch people with. their reaction and some of the reactions from people. you know from paris morgan who was scared and alex down things and. so. did those other but it is not a good country this country is piers morgan and alex jones when

they don't worry about the same things that a person. or a woman is going to worry about they don't but i think the hard part is them being so uncomfortable me that works i think when i see that when. people are scared of my good you should be about their one of the things and that reaction didn't really follow the category of race and politics some people might be a little. noted that a lot of black people hate it and the music video forces us to relive countless traumas before immediately forcing them to then what is your reaction to that. have covers approach to getting us all to talk about these issues. is it insensitive or needlessly overly sensitive is there this idea where that. is their thing where you read traumatizing people in trying to tell this story or at the end

of the day i don't even know when you get the quote a lot of black people hated it who are these people you know you are a lot of people hate everything just like a lot of people love everything so that's really like a fair thing and even that type of thinking is what's wrong with this country today the idea of you can just put all of these different types of black people in a box and think that they are all of the black people spoken into like you a lot of don't like it you're not going to you're not really going to say that about any other race you're not going to see you know oh yeah you know a lot a lot of curious you know you're not going to say that what you're going to do that to black people so that person is proud instantly problematic and the reason why we need videos like this i mean and when you look at likes of the things that glover was doing in the video it's really incredible i mean you know because like i said everyone can kind of watch it and see different things that suddenly speaks to them and that's the strength the powerful are you know when i saw the video and saw how he was moving the facial you know what he was the faces he was making things like

whoa you know that reminds me a lot of like the jim crow era you know. like where alex jones. minstrel just. study letter layer. when i look at it's joe. because he screams and he turns really is about the pop like he's he wants to be ric flair's stuff that you know just like summarize this this whole thing what donald glover did is what kanye west is trying to do there is peaking directly to the people and the issues in a way that's brilliant and transformative he's been with illusions you know people say oh my god he shot the people to deliver fell. ship what those people before he murdered them in cold blood before those officers picked him up what i consider to be like a silent you know thank you they put a burka this is america this is what happens here and it's alex jones peers web it

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