Film Cameo Expert and Comic Writer Stan Lee Makes a Pin In Hopes Of Bringing Police and BLM Together
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[quote]A half-century ago, at the height of the civil rights era, Stan Lee was co-creating the regal African character the Black Panther with the aim to appeal to a diverse readership. The legendary Marvel editor believed in the power of comics not only to reflect truthful aspects of society, but also to illuminate the better angels of our nature.
Now, at 93, Lee continues to create visuals to appeal to our higher sense of self, even as, he says, some might divide us.
That is why this week, comics’ greatest living ambassador is bringing a new symbol to New York, and thus, he hopes, the nation. Lee will be featured Friday night at a Madison Square Garden “creators’ roundtable” event as part of his appearance at the bustling New York Comic Con, which runs through Sunday.
And what Lee will speak to, through the prism of his many flawed superheroes, is mutual respect. Because Lee is again seeing a country that is roiling and boiling and hurting, partly along lines of race and authority, and so he has drawn up a simple lapel pin that depicts a handshake between arms of contrasting tints, interlocked beneath the word “Respect.”
“My daughter J.C. and I were watching TV, and she commented about the U.S. flag pin that so many politicians, including the president, often wear,” Lee tells The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs. The daughter then asked Dad: Why couldn’t people, regardless of race, wear a solidarity pin that indicated mutual respect?
“JC’s remarks sent me back to the drawing board,” Lee says, “and I designed such a pin.”
The symbol is simple in order to be effective. This isn’t about supporting any one side, he says, but rather about coming together.
“It is our desire,” Lee says, “that the ‘Hands of Respect’ symbol spreads into the general culture.”
It was at the dawn of the ’60s, of course, that Lee (working with such greats as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) helped turn Marvel Comics into a global powerhouse through characters such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men — social outsiders who fight for a better society.
“I always felt the X-Men, in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too,” Lee says, “but we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.”[/quote]
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You can find the pin in the link, I can't seem to get image tags to work.
[IMG]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/10/STANLEE-respect-pin.jpg&w=1484[/IMG]
Here's the pin in question
[QUOTE=Damjen;51167053][IMG]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/10/STANLEE-respect-pin.jpg&w=1484[/IMG]
Here's the pin in question[/QUOTE]
It looks a bit like the ingsoc logo from the 1984 movie :v:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Ingsoc_logo_from_1984.svg/2000px-Ingsoc_logo_from_1984.svg.png[/t]
good on him tho
I can't imagine BLM accepting a pin like this.
[QUOTE=sgman91;51167075]I can't imagine BLM accepting a pin like this.[/QUOTE]
Why?
Most of BLM isn't the insane nutters the right has been spreading the image of.
Jesus fucking Christ he's doing all this at 93?
Now if there was an example of the type of person I would want to be if I ever made it to that age it would without a doubt be him
[QUOTE=TheBloodyNine;51167118]Why?
Most of BLM isn't the insane nutters the right has been spreading the image of.[/QUOTE]
The BLM I've seen doesn't seem interested in mutual respect until after their demands are met.
BLM isn't an organization, it is a loose movement united under a Twitter hashtag.
[QUOTE=sgman91;51168405]The BLM I've seen doesn't seem interested in mutual respect until after their demands are met.[/QUOTE]
The BLM you've seen is the BLM the media chooses to cover.
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=CroGamer002;51168460]BLM isn't an organization, it is a loose movement united under a Twitter hashtag.[/QUOTE]
Exactly this.
[QUOTE=CroGamer002;51168460]BLM isn't an organization, it is a loose movement united under a Twitter hashtag.[/QUOTE]
which then you have a so called chapter leader say that clown live's matter is no bueno.
[QUOTE=Damjen;51167053][IMG]https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/10/STANLEE-respect-pin.jpg&w=1484[/IMG]
Here's the pin in question[/QUOTE]
So how long before someone expresses outrage that the white hand is on top of the black hand
[QUOTE=TheTalon;51168577]So how long before someone expresses outrage that the white hand is on top of the black hand[/QUOTE]
now watch as he makes 2 versions and people get into fistfights over which version youre wearing
[QUOTE=Ithon;51168505]which then you have a so called chapter leader say that clown live's matter is no bueno.[/QUOTE]
That's because you had a bunch of guys get together and call themselves a chapter, without necessarily being recognized by the rest of the movement, because they're not really an organization.
[QUOTE=archangel125;51168466]The BLM you've seen is the BLM the media chooses to cover.
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
Exactly this.[/QUOTE]
Really? Last I checked, the media didn't cover the people I know in my own life who identify with BLM.
[QUOTE=sgman91;51168995]Really? Last I checked, the media didn't cover the people I know in my own life who identify with BLM.[/QUOTE]
Oh wow I didn't realize your personal anecdote means BLM is evil and their movement worthless you're right I realize now.
All of blm I have met have been upstanding Christians and police officers who have served two tours in Afghanistan, thus blm is a movement of American heroes.
Not necessarily on topic but every time I remember that Stan Lee is 93 years old two things come to mind.
The first is that we share a birthday and he is exactly 70 years older than me, and that makes me happy. The second as that he's likely to die soon, and that makes me very sad.
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