Real Heroes #BlackPantherChallenge
Finally kids can see a movie where the main superhero looks like them (without having to sneak into an R-rated vampire flick or sitting through a Razzie-winning Catwoman). People are so excited, that over 100 GoFundMe pages have been created to send young children (primarily of color) from low income families to see Marvel’s Black Panther…
These movie-ticket drives are happening across the nation in droves.
GoFundMe accounts have multiplied into the hundreds with politicians, entertainers and the director of the Black Panther movie contributing.
The original drive was originated by New Yorker Frederick Joseph, who found that that the feature film Wonder Woman empowered girls, thought the Black Panther movie would do the same for students primarily of color. He started the original #BlackPantherChallenge early last month and so far has raised $430k to send over 30,000 children to the movie.
Cities supporting the GoFundMe drives for the #BlackPantherChallenge range from Detroit, Michigan to San Diego, California.
This is an exciting topic, that’s left us with a number of questions we would love to get student feedback on:
Wonder Woman empowered young women when it was released, and it had been a long time since there was such a successful superhero movie featuring a lead female superhero. Given those conditions, where were the fundraisers to take young women to see Wonder Woman? Certainly there are organizations like The Girl Scouts that could have been recipients of the challenge?
While that’s a question worth debate, there are some less spirited conversations we’d like to listen in on as well:
Do superheroes inspire you to do things like organize a trip to the theater for a large group of children? Are the many #BlackPantherChallenge campaigns inspiring you to do something to improve your community? If they are, tell us what you plan to do!
Take a look at the original article that inspired this post, then let us know your thoughts! Here’s the link:
https://www.today.com/parents/man-wants-send-kids-black-panther-great-reason-t121104
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