I love how people are like “imma say it, Killmonger was right’ like that wasn’t the goddamn point. I mean, T’Challa literally listened to him and is doing exactly what he said Wakanda should do. Both at the end of the movie (buying up buildings in Oakland) and the post credit scene (offering their resources at the UN). Killmonger was right when he said Wakanda has the resources to help black people and T’Challa was wrong in thinking that they’re not ‘their’ people. It took [spoiler] one of their family members being on the outside his whole life and dealing with the way black people are really treated to realize that they can’t just do nothing. That they are all their people. He’s going against all the kings before him because of Killmonger. Because Killmonger was right.
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Eh… I’d say he listened to Nakia & took HER counsel. People keep forgetting she was talking to him about helping the world first.
Erik didn’t want to help the world, he wanted to be in control.
Erik only served to show how right Nakia was because (as he said to his father) they were wrong to isolate and Killmonger was the result of that.
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Thank you. People forget about Nakia and the fact that she was the first one to get T’Challa to first question their way of interacting with the world. And that she was the one T’Challa confided in about the truth of his uncle and who Erik was long before it became public information. She was the one who told him he can be different from his father and the other kings. He thought so much about her ideas and the concerns she had expressed that he came up with a plan that would enable her to fulfill her calling and remain by his side. Like @abbiehollowdays said, Killmonger helped show him the result of the old mindset and how much Nakia was right about what they should be doing.
Like, i’m all for people recognizing the role Killmonger played, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of diminishing or erasing the role of Nakia. Otherwise, it just seems like more sexism and your regularly scheduled practice of devaluing black women to uplift black men. Which should not be the takeaway from the movie. Especially since the movie didn’t do that.
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