![]() ![]() That didn’t seem good enough for Walker, who has spent the entire series genuinely being annoyed at Sam. ![]() All of this despite the fact that Sam’s military prowess is the stuff of legend, as highlighted by Black Widow in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and that they both enlisted to serve their country. When he refused to acknowledge Cap’s last wish regarding who would get the shield? Check. When he told Wilson to stay out of his way? Check. When he referred to Wilson as Cap’s sidekick? Check. The writers gave Walker a Black partner and a Black colleague and, yet, in interactions with Sam you could tell he viewed Sam as lesser than him. Yet Walker is so blinded by a hate that had really been on the surface for most of the show but now really came out when a Black woman proceeded to wash him all over Zemo’s villa. Steve didn’t have to want to help Wanda the same way Sam didn’t have to want to help Karli, but they both chose to try because of who they are. It reminded me of Steve Rogers’s willingness to trust Wanda Maximoff in Age of Ultron and to defend her when Tony Stark labeled her a weapon of mass destruction. Movements led by people who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) tend to always be labeled as such, and it was nice to see Sam push back when Zemo pointed that out: none of us are free if we’re all not free and all that. By any means necessary didn’t mean “except for violence” when uttered by Malcolm X, and Karli’s decision to use violence doesn’t suddenly make her a supremacist. That’s an equity lens if I’ve ever seen one, and them bombing a location in order to achieve that goal is no different than the Black Panthers being ready to kill law enforcement if need be. More revolutionaries than terrorists, their goal is to ensure that everybody has what they need. What stood out was that the moment that solidified it came after some micro and macro-aggressions.Īt this point, the Flag Smashers have been cast in an ambiguous light. This episode gave us our first confirmation that Sam was really the best person to wield the shield in a post-Steve Rogers world. He doesn’t want to see the Dora Milaje beat up Walker he, also, doesn’t want to beat him up himself despite Walker antagonizing him. He doesn’t want to break Zemo out, he wants to help Sharon, and, yes like Steve, he believes in Bucky. Sam Wilson, in this episode and really the entire series so far, displayed that in spades. Through his time in the MCU, Captain America’s arc was driven by two things: his willingness to be a better person regardless of the consequences and his constant belief in people. Abraham Erskine created the Super Soldier serum, he told Steve that it was not that he was a better soldier that made him the ideal choice over Hodge but that he was a fundamentally better person. Through three episodes, I kept asking myself “why did Steve pick Sam to wield the shield?”, and at the end of this episode, I FINALLY understood. ![]() “My world doesn’t matter to America, so why should I care about its mascot?” ![]()
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