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How Marvel s Truth Comic Set the Stage for Black Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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“The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it s a price I m willing to pay. And if I m the only one, then so be it.” - Steve Rogers.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier used those words in trailers leading up to the series, as Anthony Mackie s Sam Wilson weighs the legacy of a hero by remembering Steve Rogers’ speech in
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is cribbed from John F. Kennedy. It’s a new day in the MCU and Sam s understandably confused about how to move forward with that legacy. However, Sam becoming a Black Captain America isn’t the first time a black man has wielded a star-spangled shield in a country that hasn’t always been hospitable to people who look like him. Years before Sam or Steve took up this fight, a man named Isaiah Bradley took a leap of faith. He was the first Black Captain America, and his entire squad