Wakanda forever

wonder | wander | world choose to celebrate Black History Month recalling a supreme being and superhero - Chadwick Boseman. 

Chadwick Boseman didn’t just bring a comic book character to life. He was a bright beacon of the beauty and complexity of Blackness. He embodied everything we could be - against all odds. 

The fact that he had accomplished all of this for all of us while also fighting for his own life is inconceivable and almost too much to bear. By that and any other metric, Chadwick Boseman was the hero that we were taught as children we didn’t deserve. He showed us – showed me – how wrong those lessons were. ~ Brandon Lewis 

No one is more deserving to rest in power than him. Chadwick Boseman. Black Panther. The king, T’Challa. May you live forever in our hearts and consciousness. 

Chadwick Boseman & Michael B. Jordan

Before Black Panther there was Blade, Storm of the X-Men, Static Shock if you watched Kids WB on Saturday mornings. But they didn’t stand as tall as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, or The Flash. 

What a remarkable gift he was to us all - beyond our wildest imagination. What a devastating tragedy that we are left to reflect upon those wishes and their meaning in the wake of Boseman’s untimely passing at the age of 43 - after a private and valiant fight against colon cancer.

Been thinking about this photo a lot lately and the reaction/conversations it brought up. We WASTED so much fucking time debating about masculinity and brothas *should* act in public, and so many of us ignored the simple truths in this photo that are more obvious than ever now that Chadwick is gone.

In this moment, while his body was being relentlessly attacked by cancer and the exhaustion that fighting it causes, held an embrace with a close friend on a special night KNOWING he might not live to experience ANY of it ever again. This man was confronting his humanity and we were trapped in meaningless arguments about ultimately irrelevant bullshit.

Life is too short, and the worst thing we can do is take each moment and each person in our life for granted. ~ Lincoln Anthony Blades