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Black History Year

She Created A Black Superhero To Inspire Black Children For Decades To Come

Black History Year

PushBlack

History

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Like the sun, our people radiate with power! So when her son doubted his Blackness, this superhero mother stepped in – and created something legendary!






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0:00.0

Like the sun, our people radiate with power.

0:03.6

So when her son doubted his blackness,

0:06.4

this superhero mother stepped in and created something legendary.

0:11.6

This is two-minute black history.

0:14.0

What you didn't learn in school.

0:22.0

Wile Eason's three-year-old son was playing with action figures, like usual,

0:26.8

when he looked up to ask her a question that shook her.

0:30.3

Was it true, he asked, that he could never be a superhero because he's black?

0:36.9

Heartbroken, she had to do something.

0:40.0

And what she did changed the lives of countless black kids across the country.

0:45.2

Eason created Sun Man, a black superhero powered by the sun,

0:50.0

who used his intelligence and self-confidence to defeat the bad guys.

0:54.6

A purposeful design by Eason to inspire the same feelings in black children

0:59.6

everywhere, but she didn't stop there.

1:08.2

In 1985, she also created Olmec Toys and developed an entire line of toys so that black

1:14.9

children could see themselves in the worlds they were creating.

1:19.6

There's an after-futurist scientist called Holographo and Dignitino, a numerical genius.

1:28.4

Eason wasn't playing any games, and now she's winning big again.

1:34.2

In 2021, Mattel re-released Sun Man into their action figure lineup,

1:41.2

and soon he'll debut as an animated character on a new Netflix series.

1:47.6

Our community must commit to uplifting our children in a way that this whitewash world refuses to.

1:55.4

The future depends on it.

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