I found an early case of wokeness in comics from 2006.
People are presented as good or bad contingent on their skin color.
There is an evil dictator in Uganda. If white people kill him, they’re bad. If black people do, they’re good.
Look closely and see who this PRESENTS to us at “the bad people” and “the good people.”
And why are the good people good? Because they are black and African. Even though they admit to being terrorists, essentially, having assassinated a number of people.
It’s not ever coherent.
“It’s our country! So stay out of Africa.”
But Uganda isn’t Africa. Did a bunch of Ugandan supers just declare they own Africa?
“Africa did not ask for your help.”
Well, as Doctor Spectrum says, it was a UN mission, which presumably the African nations that belong to the UN, that is, all of them, would have been involved in.
Who wrote this masterpiece of wokeness in comics?
Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Kwanza Osajyefo?
Oh. This guy.
AFRICAN TO THE BONE.
We should be CLEAR that by this logic, America did a VERY BAD THING when it killed Osama Bin Laden.
That’s not for WHITE PEOPLE.
We never see these characters again.
As things play out, Hyperion probably killed them all.
And even if Hyperion didn’t kill them all, declaring Africa “off limits” doesn’t do much good when a global plague kills your whole planet.
Oh well.
But it was a pretty good example of an EARLY WOKE VIRTUE SIGNAL, don’t you think?
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