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Today, we'll be discussing black superheroes.

At comic characters like Falcon, War Machine,

Sideboard, and the dude at Church is chicken who puts onion rings in your bag of fries.

That brother uses his powers for good.

Black superheroes are not new.

In fact, they've been squeezing into Spandex for decades.

They did as far back as 1936.

When cartoonist Jay Jackson created Speed Jackson,

and the Chicago Defender newspaper, Speed Jackson was a former track star at Howard University

who was an excellent fist fighter,

which may not sound powerful compared to today's superheroes with their laser eyes and sticky spider hands,

which you have to think about it like sports.

Today's best athletes are the pinnacle of human physicality,

while the best athletes from the 1930s were just the ones with the least polio.

Times change.

Jackson used his abilities to fight against fascists during the war

and write the wrongs of a racist society,

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