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CMV: The scene in Black Panther where the white guy tries to speak and some of the black people starts making monkey noises and the leader says “YOU do not get the speak here” is pretty racist.

I’m not even talking about this movie as a whole, and I’m not even talking about the fact that they’re making monkey noises because the leader “M’Baku” is the leader of a group whose mascot is an ape. (Although I think an argument could still be made.) I’m mostly talking about the fact that they wouldn’t let the white guys speaking seemingly just because he was white? Perhaps it was because he was not from Africa or even just from Wakanda. But I have to say I saw this movie in a theatre and the reaction of the crowd towards this scene was honestly scary. People were cheering and excited. I can’t help but feel that if the roles were reversed, a black man tried to speak and the white people told him he’s not allowed to speak, either A. People would be angry and it would be wildly racist, or B. It would be racist within the context of the film and the white people would essentially be the “villains” of that film.
gpt
Yeah it's meant to be uncomfortable, that's why it's in the film. Thematically *Black Panther* is pretty simple: it presents three ways to resist imperialism - xenophobic isolation, counter-imperial aggression, and cooperation. It sets up the idea that Wakanda has resisted imperialism through xenophobic isolationism that is so extreme they would let an outsider die rather than bring him to Wakanda. The plot gets going in earnest on the one hand when they violate this rule to save Martin Freeman and on the other when their isolationism bites them all in the ass as it leads to the creation of Killmonger. Who seizes power and wants to take the aggression route. The Jabari are in the film because they represent a microcosm of Wakanda within Wakanda: they are so isolationist that they don't even come down from their mountains for any reason but to screw with Black Panther at his coronation ceremony thing. The Jabbari doing what they would never do and coming down from the mountain to save Wakanda is a mirror to Black Panther realizing that isolation is bad and that Wakanda must cooperate with the world if it is to survive. But in order for that to work thematically the Jabari have to be set up as extremists.