Wakanda Happened 100 Years Ago in America

Описание: What if the sovereignty of Wakanda wasn’t just a fantasy but something Black people actually built in America 100 years ago? #film # history #cinema

When Black Panther dropped, people called Wakanda “a dream.” But Ryan Coogler didn’t invent the idea of Black power as institutions , he just gave it a blockbuster budget. Wakanda felt powerful because it had structure: government, military, schools, technology, business, and a self-sustaining economy.

And here’s the twist: that same kind of institutional power existed in real life.

In the 1920s, a Black preacher named Reverend Solomon Sir Jones filmed real all-Black towns in Oklahoma, places with banks, schools, businesses, parades, fraternal orders, and civic life. Not trauma. Not stereotypes. Infrastructure.

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00:00 Intro
2:08 SS Jones Bio
4:02 Film Career
13:38 Compilation of Footage