From Wakanda to Jamaica: Dr. Sheena Howard on Black Panther, Abduction at 19, Abuse, and Owning Your Creative Destiny

Today on the James Alteger show. What happened when you were 19? Dude, I got abducted in Jamaica, yo. I feel like it's just a myth making of the industry where they just keep telling us that like black superheroes don't sell and, you know, black people keep proving them wrong. So like, hey, let's like Martin Luther King versus Malcolm X or hey, here's Black Panther.

Don't worry, he's safe, he's not gonna be violent on you. Like s sort of like to appease or to make the white audience feel. Exactly. I said to people, I was like, you know, when T'Cala goes into Oakland at the end of that first movie, I'm like, you know, he's about to gentrify it, right? And like people are about to get displaced.

That's a good reminder too that like it's way easier to make money as a writer than to try to rely on these big five companies and hope that you get picked. It's a more valuable path to build the audience, write a good book. And monetize your audience. You gotta make yourself the gatekeeper. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.

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