America Needs Black Superheroes.

Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Age of Superheroes is upon us, the names are iconic along with their feats of strength, intelligence, marvelous abilities that bring awe and astonishment to our eyes. Heroes make our hearts swell with pride and our minds expand to possibilities unimaginable of saving lives and liberties.

Superheroes give us hope, allow us to dream and motivation to see that there are people who care about our world. Even when there is danger that seems undefeatable the thoughts and minds enable the voices to cry out for our heroes to save the day. Even if they are far away, tucked into our imaginations, they give us the strength to act, to jump into the fray and make a difference.

The centuries are glazed with these iconic men, women, teens and even children that take the heavy burdens of being hated and being ostracized to put themselves and even their families in harm’s way to prevent tragedy in the world that sometimes even hates them and what they represent. The world is not always a friendly nor a safe place; around corners, across bridges, in communities lurks unseen and unheard of dangers. The hope is there will be heroes to save us and our families.

Marvel Comics is releasing new movies with heroes that are iconic in their historical larger than life feats of heroic successes. There are more that do not get the publicity or the notoriety, they are just as important on many levels. Historically, culturally, psychologically and even spiritually.
These Black Superheroes are derived from the folklore of American Ex-slaves. They represent a culture, people that are just as important to the history and the magnificence of America as other cultures.

America Needs Black Superheroes

The Black Superheroes are a works of love, respect and honoring those that had influence during a dark period of American history. They are just as important and dare say more so for a people that were enslaved during the horrific seasons of slavery in American history.

This work “Black Superheroes” was derived from the Library of Congress American Ex-slaves archives gathered by the Federal Writer’s Project during the 1930’s, and Palmetto Country by Stetson Kennedy.

As the New Year of 2016 gets closer celebrate and share the feats of greatness with children, teens, and young adults. Thank those that are your seniors and elders for being superheroes through generations of slavery, segregation, civil rights struggles and the tumultuous years of Jim Crow laws, violence and even deaths icy touch that has taken away children, teens, young adults and adults working to make this world a better place for Black and all people of color and culture. They are true heroes because they paved the way for us to be educated, employed and live in a country that has an American dream. It is not perfect, but where would you want
to live elsewhere? The world is a dangerous place, but America still embraces peace, diversity and a culture of tolerance.

Celebrate the sacrifices of Black Superheroes by reading their comic book; Introducing the Black Superheroes comic book presents and commemorates folklore pictures of 10 black superheroes.

Tangela Floyd, Director

Young Minds Building Success Charities

Msakatan3@gmail.com

http://www.ymbsc.org

Staff Writer; William D. Jackson

Find out more about this talented writer over at; OCS For Education.

Marque Anthony says:

December 7, 2015 at 4:58 pm

TO THE AUTHOR:
Your idea is right but YOUR DEFINITION of who we are is wrong!

What’s sad is that we African Americans are still calling ourselves BLACK because Caucasian oppressors called us that to contrast their color and to assign to us all the negative things BLACK is equated with in the dictionary. The fact is, like it or not and believe it or not, YOU ARE BROWN and your car tires are black. You can say black is a culture but when they deal with you, they deal with you based on it’s definition – dismal, gloomy, dark, diabolical, treacherous, devoid of light.

WAKE UP AFRICAN AMERICANS. We do not call the Asian yellow man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Native American a red man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Hispanic man a brown man because he would not stand for it. And many Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans do not accept being called a color they know they are NOT.

Ironically, African Americans are the only ethnic group/race on the planet which allows ourselves to be called a color we are not, allowing ourselves to be defined by color, by someone else and to allow ourselves to be attached to a color we are not – a color they filled with negative denotations. Then we fight to help keep the lie in place. Is it any wonder that cops treat us as BLACK people by the definition of dismal, gloomy, treacherous, evil etc? We will never rise and overcome as a people if we allow other groups to define us, to define us with a lie and we are sadly willing to help them. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES MATTER PEOPLE.

Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. I am a family and relationship counselor who specializes in deprogramming African Americans from slavery mindsets.