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BLACK PANTHER Petition Asks Disney Marvel Give 25% Profits to Black Communities

2,699 views · Published 19 February 2018 · 7:21 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Film Gob · 2018 · News & Politics

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A Change.org petition is calling on Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Company to invest 25 percent of the profits for the hot new film 'Black Panther' into the black community - SUBSCRIBE TO FILM GOB www.youtube.com/filmgob

PETITION: 
https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-25-of-marvel-studios-profits-from-the-black-panther-film-invested-in-black-communities

Created by a user named Chaz Gormley, the petition’s description said that Marvel and Walt Disney Co. have “targeted the black community with their advertisements” for the film.

Gormley goes on to say that while it is a “symbolic victory” to see a major studio film with a majority black cast, black director and art direction helmed by black artists, this achievement doesn’t gain anything for the black community. He cites that Marvel’s marketing campaign has targeted black customers specifically by releasing the film during Black History Month and jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” playing in the background of the film’s initial trailer.

The petition asks that the studios stop simply asking for money from black customers with a film like this, but rather put their money where their mouth is and agree to set aside 25 percent of their worldwide profit “to be allocated for investment in black communities, and in programs within these communities that focus on S.T.E.M.”

Marvel and Walt Disney Co. did not immediately respond on the petition, which is asking supporters to use the #BreakBreadMarvel/#BreakBreadDisney hashtags.


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