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It’s why we should be able to handle these two truths at once. Mutancy represents Blackness while also needing intersectionality to strengthen it. The existence of Black mutants doesn’t erase the metaphor, it literalizes it.
It’s *additive* if you will.
And this isn’t to flatten what Blackness represents (or what mutants represent to other marginalized identities). This is to point out how the metaphor parallels the very real world identity of Blackness in how it positions these characters in the society they live in.