babysaintheron:

trapdisco:

i’m not gonna shut up about all these beautiful dark skinned women in black panther for a while okay? do you know how easy it would’ve been for them to pull a Classic Hollywood Maneuver and cast a bunch of light-medium brown skinned women in this movie and have darker skinned black women just sprinkle the background or be a part of the obvious enemy group? or to just conveniently place a light skinned black woman in the role of the eventual love interest or as ramonda, who is t’challa’s mother, an obvious role of power, like they could’ve easily shown us one of the 6 light skinned flavors of the year and they didn’t and i’m so fucking grateful, we are seeing dark skinned black women in a bunch of different roles, all serving different purposes and all obviously powerful and i’m living for it and this is all from a 2 minute TEASER trailer like this is amazing

when you watch the movie, and not only was it packed to the brim with dark skinned black women, but they ALL served a purpose and were multifaceted and existed as more than plot devices and were crucial to the story and very obviously valued and respected