What does the future look like for black people? Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Video by: Gina Barton, Victoria Massie, and Joe Posner Black people are rarely featured in sci-fi and fantasy films — that is, unless that black person is Will Smith. How do black people get to exist in the future? Afrofuturism, a scholarly and artistic movement that imagines the future through black people’s experiences is one answer. The term was coined in 1994 by culture critic Mark Dery in his "Black to the Future" essay. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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1. Ancient and modern Egyptians are caucasoid. Why won't Afrocentrics accept this?
2. marvel's black panther
3. That is actually an interpolation of Golden Gate Quartet
   Swing Down, Chariot
4. where can i give all my money to disenfranchised black people and those who suffer from systematic racism but who's main issue is that they are lacking afrofuturism? this is important to me
5. this title is misleading
6. It's kinda sad that pretty much all black media on the internet is from the African American perspective. The African diaspora has spread so far that now black communities can be found all over the world yet the meta-narrative for a whole race stays the same. How can we no longer be homogenised and be seen as a monolith; if we are constantly demoted to a characterised fabrication of what 'black' looks like. I for one do not believe that race can be performed but if it could, would this be the picture that we would choose...doubtful xx
7. It's kinda sad that pretty much all black media on the internet is from the African American perspective. The African diaspora has spread so far that now black communities can be found all over the world yet the meta-narrative for a whole race stays the same. How can we no longer be homogenised and be seen as a monolith; if we are constantly demoted to a characterised fabrication of what 'black' looks like. I for one do not believe that race can be performed but if it could, would this be the picture that we would choose...doubtful xx
8. 13 percent of america is black and thats the percentage of black actors... if thats racist i dont know what isnt
9. lol, 4chan is raging at this
10. not gonna lie, this is kinda stupid
11. Pushing for diversity in alien invasion sci-fi, or any sci-fi that has humanity faced with a technologically superior foe, is rather backwards as The War of the Worlds was a commentary on British imperialism so to add diversity for the sake of diversity is completely missing the point.
12. And nothing about techno
13. outstanding articulation !
14. anyone else think this video was going to be about afros
15. HAAAAA it got a little too real for white people here wow
16. Anyone else got bleach I ran out before it...
17. Anyone want to have the rest of my bleach
18. I just came here to watch the comments.
19. You wuz never kangs, and never will be kangs if you don't learn to talk and sing like people.
20. All these black tears, it's rejuvenating