1. I never liked Sam getting the shield in Endgame. He is already "Falcon". That's pretty a f'n cool thing to be. He didn't need a promotion any more than Black Panther or Luke Cage need a "promotion" to Previously White Character. They are fine the way they are. It should never have been presented as if it were a "step up". It's an insult to Black characters.
Then you've never understood not only who Steve Rogers is/was in terms of his belief that the best of what Captain America represents needed to continue in a darker world where moral clarity is seen as quaint or confining to those with power. The very traits Erskine saw in Rogers--the
why he was right for the Super Soldier program and how he would act and
react in the world is exactly what Rogers saw in Wilson. Among the ocean liner's worth of MCU characters, those traits are incredibly rare, to the point where one would be hard-pressed to find another character as naturally
noble and fit to uphold the duty & values the role represents other than Wilson.
Sams speech at the end was groaningly cringe. The 'I am a Black man with Captain Americas shield, what don't I understand' was a bizarre and ridiculous statement. However, this show is being made during the national unhinged hysteria of BLM and Antifa. We are steeped in the ideologically driven hyperbole about the CRT/Woke notion of the US being a "matrix of oppression". A cishetero, White supremacist, Patriarchal, Ableist tyranny. Intersecting "systems" (however imaginary) that allegedly privilege and benefit some while disadvantaging and marginalizing others.
Incorrect. Sam's line has key historic and global meanings (from his perspective as a black man) relevant to the story; he was
redirecting the senator's government assembly line "you don't understand" response to make him see (if possible) the embodiment of those people (black people the world over) who have been and are still displaced, under-represented (or ignored), being denied that which is afforded to everyone else, forced or manipulated out of property, access to resources, and so much more. Sam--more than that senator--has lived (and carried as a dark heritage) the kind of abuses that led more emotional minds to go the Flag Smasher route.
That last part was his personal contrast--that in the face of the "stars and stripes" (with its endless abuses standing on the polar opposite of what its supposed to represent), he was asserting his aforementioned dark heritage and life to say he--as a representative of a nation that has spent centuries physically, legally and psychologically subjugating his people--understands the Flag Smasher's motives. The only difference is that Wilson--as a descendant of a people who played a monumental role in making America the power that it is (more than American media, political entities and academia will ever admit) is "trying something different," (as said to Karli), but warned that the potential for the GRC to inspire more Flag Smashers was great, due to the GRC's actions.
There's no way anyone
fully knowledgeable about the history of black people in relation to government abuse, manipulation and/or indifference (like the one posting this) would not instantly understand and support Sam's perspective, because its a reflection of reality.
Hopefully Spellman never writes another line of a Marvel show.
Then you are in for more pain, as he is currently writing
Captain America 4, all due his work on
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which was one of the best and most engaging MCU productions.
