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Thank you, Chadwick Boseman

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When I was little I watched a bunch of Disney movies (and also Jurassic Park and Free Willy) haha. I didn't know as a kid how to identify with personality traits, I mostly went off looks and who I saw myself as based on similarities in appearance. For this reason, even though Cinderella did the most of what I enjoyed (cleaning and tidying up, regardless of the choice factor) I always said "I'm Snow White!" because she had black hair like me, and her skin color looked like mine!  Young kids don't have the ability to think creatively in the sense of who is 'most like them' they almost always go off what they see.   This is "who I was" in my mind because she was closest to what I saw myself as at that young age.  *** During 2018 for the first time ever a million kids and adults were ecstatic because Black Panther came out and it was the first time many little brown and black kids would see themselves in a superhero role, something that had never b