The debates on Race in America just increased in fire and fury with the release of the comic book based fictional movie Black Panther. At the heart of this racial conflict is Obama’s divisive presidency. One recent column by Peniel Joseph in the Washington Post chronicles Obama’s failure to stop the “open warfare” of racial conflict during his term in office but Obama increased the volume as anti-white rhetoric increased to shrill screaming.
Mistake it not. “Black Panther,” by contrast, is steeped very specifically and purposefully in its blackness and runs counter to MLK’s message: “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” Character that’s ignored or forgotten by the opening day audiences who are so eger to embrace the skin color judgment. 
“We came dressed in our African attire to show our support,” says Coleburn Bryant. “To be able to celebrate our culture and the beauty and style which you’ll certainly see in the film.”
On the opposite side of the earth, a majority of American whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it,” said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, “and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you’re white, you don’t get it. If you’re black, you get it.”
More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Black Panther will ratchet up the differences.
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