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Conservatives Freak Out When Black ‘Captain America’ Takes On Extremist Border Vigilantes

[Cross-posted at Hatewatch.] There’s a new Captain America, and he’s black. Not only that: His first villains are border militiamen. Repeating what happened a few years ago when Marvel Comics’ film franchise cast a black man (Idris Elba) in the role of the Viking demigod Heimdahl, white nationalists have erupted in grumbling and outrage over the iconic comic hero’s change in race – perhaps somewhat predictably. But it is the use of border militiamen as the first villains confronted by the new “Cap” that has mainstream conservative pundits in an uproar.

 

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