I was wondering why there was never a black Super Hero – from days when I was a kid and was growing up reading Phantom, Mandrek, Flash Gordon, Super Man, etc, until today (my nephew plays with lots of miniature Super heroes, I don’t even know the names of half of them!) I don’t seem to have come across a real Black Super Hero!
I was thinking about this yesterday when I went to watch a movie in Inox. Well, the idea came to my mind when the theatre was showing some previews of their upcoming movies. One such movie is about a man who has immense power and can do all such things which all super heroes have done innumerable times to save our life and this world.
What intrigued me was the actor, or rather the choice of the actor - the versatile Will Smith. Well, well, I thought - is this the first time that a black has been given the power of a super hero by the Hollywood veterans?
If Keanu Reeves is considered a Super Hero in Matrix, he has an interesting ethnicity - one-quarter each of Chinese, Portuguese, Hawaiian and English. If Halle Berry’s ‘Cat Woman’ is taken as a Super Hero character, please note that her mother is a Caucasian, while her father is an Afro-American! Therefore, no real Black Super Hero...
While reading through today’s newspaper, I came across a news where Angelina Jolie has complained about the absence of any known / new fariy tale with a black princess’ story. She was particularly concerned about her black and brown daughters who are now reaching that reading age and has started asking question why the princess in their story books don’t look like them!
This made me wonder more. Why is this new super human (read super hero) movie with Will Smith? Why now? Why it was not done, say, 10 years back?
I don’t know if it’s ‘inspired’ or ‘encouraged’, but Barack Obama, it seems, has already started to change the rule of game. And I am, among every body else is waiting for a real change to happen... Let it begin
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