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Characters will also respond to the player’s gender identification, which includes male, female, and “other.” After choosing one of these options, players can specify if they are cisgender or transgender.

wow thats some real ass social satire mixed with video game parody, good job South Park!

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I don’t want racists to feel safe. I don’t want racists to feel comfortable. I don’t want racists to enjoy being racists.

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When racists feel safe, no one else does.

#Nigerian #jollof #egusi #food #west African

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Friendly reminder

“Doing your best” does not mean working yourself to the point of a mental breakdown.

vastderp

this one still smashes me in the face ten times a year. do not ignore pain, it’s no longer your best at that point

destinyrush

“I have made so many people angry that I’m being punished and basically made to be quiet and sit in a corner, while other less interesting and exciting people are reaping the benefits of the roads I’ve paved.

It’s so unequivocally frustrating to read that Whitney Houston has the music career I wish I had and Sharon Stone has the film career I’ll never have. Not because I want to be these women because I’d rather die, but they’re so horribly mediocre and they’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me.”

Madonna can’t sing or act and she wanna slander Whitney and Sharon. Take 100 seats bitch.

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Fuck Madonna like who even asked her???

nevaehtyler

Whitney’s mediocre??????????

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I am geeked

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the audacity of this basic bitch

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The Wakandan Royal Portrait offers clues to the dangers within the fictional nation

T’CHALLA

“What makes him different from other superheroes first and foremost is he doesn’t see himself as a superhero,” says director and co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed). “He sees himself as a politician. That’s the first thing on his mind when he wakes up in the morning. ‘How am I going to fulfill my duties as king of this place?’”

That means not just fighting external foes, but keeping the citizens of his nation happy. He’s a king, but not a tyrant. And Wakandans don’t speak with only one voice. There are many political factions, many clashing points of view. Some are ready for revolution. Some are being pushed.

“He has to keep harmony between the tribes within his country, and that means managing expectations and doing things that are unpopular,” Coogler says. “At the same time, he is the protector of that nation.”

RAMONDA

Angela Bassett costars as Ramonda, once the queen, now the mother of the king.

“She is one of the advisors that he would look to,” Boseman says. “He has to look to her for some of the answers of what his father might want or might do. She may not be exactly right all the time, but she definitely has insights. She is the queen mother. And she’s that for not just him, but for everybody.”

Bozeman laughs. “She’s has her hands in everything — even his love life.”

NAKIA

“The one thing I will say about all the female characters in this movie is that they are very strong,” Boseman says. “It’s a very matriarchal society.”

One of them is Wakanda’s undercover operative Nakia, played by 12 Years a SlaveOscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o. She may actually be the closest thing to 007 in this movie, and she’s a former lover of T’Challa’s.

“She is a departure from what she was in the comic book,” Nyong’o says. “Nakia is a war dog. She is basically an undercover spy for Wakanda. Her job is to go out into the world and report back on what’s going on.”

She also boasts some unique weaponry. “We call them her ring blades,” says Moore. “The ones Lupita carries while in the green outfit are based on traditional African weaponry. However, she does get a hi-tech upgrade later in the film, compliments of Shuri.”

SHURI

Letitia Wright plays T’Challa’s kid sister, who is no one you want to face in battle either. “She is also a genius and runs the entire Wakandan design group,” says producer Kevin Feige, whose also president of Marvel Studios and one of the chief architects of its interlocked universe. “She’s responsible for all these amazing technological advances that Vibranium has brought about from Wakanda.”

Here she is pictured with twin, panther-shaped weapons. It’s not clear yet what they do exactly, but it probably hurts.

OKOYE

She’s not technically family, but she’s just as close. This character played by The Walking Dead‘s Danai Gurira is the head of the Dora Milaje, the all-female special soldiers unit that protects the kingdom (and the king) from harm.

“They are a very powerful force,” she says. “They are not utopic, but what Wakanda has down well is it has allowed people to function within their strengths. These women, their strength is to preserve Wakanda. It’s more like the secret service in a sense that it’s not just military. She is head of intel.”

Okoye has guilt over the death of the previous king, and she’s generally a stoic presence. But she’s not unfeeling. “She can be serious, but she also has an unexpected sense of humor,” Gurira says. “She has a heart, but for her country and for her people. She’s not a person who doesn’t connect to human beings as a result of what she does.”

ERIK KILLMONGER

There is an enemy in this portrait.

In the comics, he was once a Wakandan known as N’Jadaka, but he took on this “death-dealing” nom de guerre when he became a dissident, then an exile, from his homeland.

Michael B. Jordan’s character is one of the antagonists of the film, allied with the mercenary Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis, reprising his role from Avengers: Age of Ultron), an arms dealer who has plundered Vibranium before and plans to do it again. He’s addicted.

In The Godfather terms, Killmonger has sided with this outsider against “the family,” his brothers and sisters of Wakanda. “I think Killmonger has his own opinion on how Wakanda has been run and should run, and what I think Michael brings to the table is sort of a charming antagonist, who doesn’t agree with how T’Challa is running things, frankly,” says Moore. “I think that puts T’Challa in a difficult situation. Killmonger is a voice of a different side of Wakanda.”

W’KABI

Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya plays T’Challa’s best friend, who is also a member of one of the most vital groups in the nation. “W’Kabi is the head of security for the Border Tribe,” says Moore. “They live on the borders of Wakanda and serve as the first line of defense for the country.”

In other words, he helps maintain the disguise that Wakanda is just mines, farms, and woods.

“To outsiders they appear to be what people would ‘expect’ of a small provincial African nation – but the truth is they are some of the fiercest warriors in Wakanda, intent on protecting the secrets of their advanced nation at all costs,” Moore says.

Now that T’Challa is king, he asks W’Kabi to join him as a palace advisor.

ZURI

Another vital voice of reason for the young king is Forest Whitaker’s shaman, a longtime advisor to T’Challa’s father and the keeper of the Heart-Shaped Herb, a plant that grows only in Wakanda and absorbs the Vibranium-rich minerals. When consumed, it gives the new leader superhuman strength. (But in the comics, it only works on members of the royal bloodline.)

“He’s somewhat a religious figure or spiritual figure,” Coogler says of Zuri. “Spirituality is something that exists in Wakanda in the comics, and it’s something we wanted to have elements of in the film. Forest’s character, more than anything, is a major tie-back to T’Challa’s father. Zuri is someone he looks to for guidance.”

As wondrous as Wakanda seems, it can also be treacherous. For all the talk of honor in The Godfather, the families were compulsively driven to destroy each other. 007 may venture to the most beautiful places (and people) on Earth, but there’s always a villain determined to wipe those places off the map. If Black Panther owes thematic inspiration to those predecessors, the danger comes hand in hand with the beauty.

But that’s where the similarities will end. When the Marvel Studios movie debuts Feb. 16, the story will remain on Earth, but its creators pledge to take fans to a world they’ve never seen before nonetheless.

“I don’t think people are prepared for what this movie is going to be,” says Feige. “Not just Black Panther, but the Dora Milaje, and Killmonger, and the entire design of Wakanda – both its traditional African-inspired elements, but also the Vibranium inspired techno-elements. I can’t think of a blend that has happened like that before in movies.”

There’s only one Black Panther, after all.

No matter who wants to lay claim to his throne.

thechanelmuse

That white fragility, I tell ya. Always barging in black spaces trying to dictate, demand, and derail anything that doesn’t center or include whiteness. We will gather your ass while staying on the topic at hand.

Black women.

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Beyoncé and family in NOLA

Look at Blue’s hair <3

hypnotic-flow

nothing is worse than watching your own post hit the white tumblr side and seeing all the negative comments come flowing in 🙄

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Man listen

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theoriginalblackbarbie

It’s so annoying. My feed blew up on My Kardashian Post. So many hurt feelings I couldn’t deal.

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Its wild like your before you know it, 12 of them in your inbox calling you a racist nigger.

theoriginalblackbarbie

A racist nigger. Or go back to Trinidad. You’re ugly. Look like a monkey. I wish you niggers never came here. Or some other wild ass threat. One dude said they’d wish they could these bag and kill 8 or 12 of us at a time. We get literal death threats but these babies wanna cry. Foh

When white ppl try to tell me that I'm racist towards white people lmao

Reverse Racism isn't real!!

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“He listened to the song that reminded him of her- it was cheesy and slow and sounded like an apartment in the sky”

Sexual Education from a Virgin

The reason that there's so many pregnant teens nowadays is the terrible sexual education our country provides. We live in a ignorance is bliss country that relies on misconceptions to get their point across. Education systems turn their backs and pretend their students aren't sexually active. Preventative methods aren't discussed with students. But the blame can't be all on the education system, parents share in this blame. Parents are too embarrassed to speak on this subject with their children. If you can't talk to your child about birth control and other contraceptive methods then you really have no place in being angry when they bring home a baby. If you can't talk about where babies come from then you shouldn't be having babies either. Most teenagers are rebellious by nature so just telling them that sex is bad and you should refrain from it till your married is 40% not going to work. After seeing classmates getting in these predicaments, I see a lot of the same issues correlating. We need to educate the future better.

#sexual Education #teen pregancy

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Hey Jonamae, its Ify. Can I ask you a favor? There's this selfie post I uploaded around July 10, 2015 and my mom is making me delete it and the only way it can permanetly delete is if everyone who liked and/or reblogged it deletes and unlikes it. If its not too much do you mind deleting and disliking that post. How's school btw? Thanks, Ify

Hey Ify. No problem, it’s done. School is alright. How about you?