Does Wesley Snipes get no credit for Blade (1998) ???
Why all the fuss over this movie, when in the 90s we had TWO black superhero movies just off the top of my head, Spawn and Blade. So why did everyone freak out as if Black Panther was the first black superhero, when he clearly wasn't.
Furthermore, when Blade came out, it was considered a good movie, but no one freaked out over a black man in the lead role, because we had a lot of black actors in lead roles in the 90s, so it wasn't out of the ordinary to see a black man lead a superhero movie.
Why, then, in 2018 did everyone go insane over THIS movie? Is it because we have gone backward so much from the 90s, and by 2018, a black man leading a superhero movie had become some kind of impossible idea in the minds of moviegoers.
I can only say, I think racial diversity in films must have really went DOWNHILL from 1999 to 2018, for anyone to make such a big deal of a black man headlining a film. I still don't get the fuss over this, when Blade and Spawn had already come out. Also it's kind of an insult to all the great black actors and performances which came before.