Chadwick Boseman will live forever, and T’Challa should as well. Boseman’s brother Derrick Boseman recently came out in support of recasting his late brother’s role as T’Challa in Black Panther because he believes his brother knew Black Panther to young Black kids was a role model more than simply a role.
Chadwick’s older brother recently spoke with TMZ about the role of T’Challa being recast in future Black Panther films, supporting the move to preserve a role model for impressionable Black kids. TMZ reported Derrick intimated that the influence of Black Panther would give young Black kids a positive alternative to hip-hop’s glorification of all that’s wrong in society. While TMZ doesn’t say if Derrick believes Chadwick had the same disparaging view of hip-hop, the site does report Derrick wholeheartedly believes his late younger brother always felt the role of T’Challa didn’t belong to him; it belonged to the people it inspired.
