That blackness—a blackness held in the flesh of those deemed black, but nevertheless exceeding them—is, in my mind, the place where discourses and experiences of the super emerge: space travel (in the blackness of space); the Black Panther (with a superhero origin story lodged in root work—that sacred herb seems a lot like the root Frederick Douglass was given); and even the X-Men (that community of beings no longer deemed human, but nevertheless deeply intriguing and terrifying to the normative world).
