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They thought it was gonna make 700 million, but it actually made 1. 3 billion. So it had a business impact, it had a community impact, it opened up doors. dramatic music Rocket Thrusting it showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at afrofuturism and blacks in scifi, looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the television screens, finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. When you think of how broad that landscape is, to not include every single individual that is participating in the world, then its a li ....
People. Black people were just so absent in Science Fiction, and its a blind spot. Black panther was a massive moment in our culture. They thought it was going to make 700 million. But it actually made 1. 3 billion. So, it had a business impact. It had a community impact. It opened up doors. It showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at black looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the Television Screens finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. ....
It reflected this concept of just not looking at black people as people and as a part of broader humanity. in the 1960s, as the nation is dealing with the socio and political unrest, to take the crea created the twilight zone. in all this darkness, is there anybody that can make out the truth? the first time you saw a black person on the twilight zone was in a famous episode called color me black about a sundown town. the town, it went dark. they were going to hang a man for shooting his bigoted white neighbor. do you know why there s night all around us? do you know what the blackness is? it s the hate he felt, the hate ....
( twilight zone theme music) - in the 1960s as the nation is dealing with the socio and political unrest of the time, writer-director rod serling decides that to take unrest that the nation was dealing with and package it in a sci-fi show, and he created the twilight zone . - in all this darkness is there anybody who can make out the truth? - you know, the first time you really saw a black person on the twilight zone was ivan dixon. and he was in a famous episode called color me black about a sundown town. the town, it went dark. they were gonna hang a man for shooting his bigoted white neighbor. - do you know why there s night all around us? do you know what the blackness is? it s the hate he felt, the hate you felt, the hate all of us feel and there s too much of it, it s just too much. - the sun went down and it never came up. ....