There’s parallels between the personal and philosophical relationship Magneto has with Professor X and what Louis Farrakhan and Malcom X had with MLK.
And believe me, the divisions in black society over those 3 (and those that followed in each’s footsteps) are also echoed in how mutants view Mags & the Prof.
And I definitely got the analogy Marvel writers were making. As a short, perennially fat, myopic, black, Catholic, brainiac nerd, I’ve had my own rogue’s gallery of bullies. And while I’ve never been to Vidor, my parents actually moved to Irving, Tx in 1982, when I was 14.
At the time, it wasn’t a sundown town (anymore) but it was still a KKK stronghold and the most segregated city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.* Not only did several small business owners & operators know who my parents were in alarming detail the first day they met, black professionals reached out to them and asked “Why are YOU here?”
* Today, Irving has become so multicultural it’s mind-boggling. The white supremacists haven’t left, but there’s sooooooo many more brown people there now they’re not as brazen.
And believe me, the divisions in black society over those 3 (and those that followed in each’s footsteps) are also echoed in how mutants view Mags & the Prof.
And I definitely got the analogy Marvel writers were making. As a short, perennially fat, myopic, black, Catholic, brainiac nerd, I’ve had my own rogue’s gallery of bullies. And while I’ve never been to Vidor, my parents actually moved to Irving, Tx in 1982, when I was 14.
At the time, it wasn’t a sundown town (anymore) but it was still a KKK stronghold and the most segregated city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.* Not only did several small business owners & operators know who my parents were in alarming detail the first day they met, black professionals reached out to them and asked “Why are YOU here?”
* Today, Irving has become so multicultural it’s mind-boggling. The white supremacists haven’t left, but there’s sooooooo many more brown people there now they’re not as brazen.
