Now that Wakanda fever has dissipated some, and now that I’ve watched the movie, I got one thing to say: I can see how the fervor for a mythical land of prosperity entices so many of us.
What I witness too often is that we want to create these lands with no redistribution.
What I witness too often is that we want to create these lands with no redistribution.
That’s why, for example, too many celebrities want to build up their own schools instead of upending the current school systems and the laws that keep them inequitable. Or why “school choice” boils down to how much a parent can customize their child’s education.
There’s this weird paradox where we’re tussling with the idea of creating a space where we can just be and a way to bring that to more people than just the talented, exceptional few. That goes for too many spaces, but I’ll stick to education for now.
The early conversation was too much about whether Killmonger or T’Challa were right. There wasn’t enough interrogation about how we can reflect either of them or Shuri, M’Baku, Nakia, T'Chaka or Okoye.
And how that reflects our praxis and visions for schools.
And how that reflects our praxis and visions for schools.
