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The Benjamin Dixon Show

This Black Superman Comic Triggered MAGA So Hard, Elon Tried to Ban It — Then It Went Viral

The Benjamin Dixon Show

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6861 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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When artist Obi Arisukwu dropped this Black Superman comic strip, MAGA lost their minds. The comic? A five-panel moral mic drop: Superman sees a man falling — then sees the MAGA hat — and re-buttons his shirt. No cape. No save. Just a question: “Would he have saved me?” Elon’s Twitter (X) flagged it for “hateful content.”

The post was visibility-limited — censored. So Obi reposted it. The result? It went double viral. Over 2.2 million views, 86,000+ likes, and a digital firestorm that exposed the real hypocrisy behind "free speech" rhetoric. We sit down with Obi to break down the comic, the backlash, the cultural moment around Superman 2025, and what happens when truth goes mythic. 🎨 Follow Obi and support his work: 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Black Superman hears the screams.

0:02.0

A man is falling and his life is in danger.

0:06.0

Our hero unbuttoned his shirt, revealing the iconic S on his chest.

0:11.0

Black Superman is ready to save the day.

0:14.0

But then he sees who it is that's falling.

0:18.0

A Donald Trump supporter still wearing a MAGA hat. This isn't just a comic strip.

0:24.4

It's an essential question detonated in just five frames. What happens when the hero recognizes

0:31.8

that the person needing to be saved is someone who wouldn't save him, someone who would rather see him deported,

0:40.1

discredited, or dead. This is Obi Arousuku's comic, and in those five quiet panels,

0:47.0

it holds the exact moral fracture at the center of the latest Superman blockbuster success and the firestorm it unleashed.

0:57.0

The immigrant hero, the darker skin savior, the outsider now asked to serve the very empire that is attacking other outsiders.

1:07.0

But this isn't just about one cartoon, one comic strip, or one film. It's about the structural

1:13.2

pattern they both activated and revealed, about the myths that an empire tells itself and the fault

1:19.7

lines that reveal mythic pressure points. It's about the refusal to play savior for systems

1:25.5

that wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire.

1:28.4

And yet, the moment black Superman sees the red hat of the bigot, he rebuttons the shirt,

1:34.7

and the cape stays folded.

1:37.2

We speak with the creator of the comic that broke the minds and exposed the hypocrisy of

1:42.4

the very people who cry free speech and comedy is legal

1:46.6

again. That is of course until the joke was on them. Maga launched a campaign to get the comic

1:53.0

strip removed from social media, just like their campaign labeling the latest Superman film

1:59.0

Woke, trying to cancel it before it even came out

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