X-Men: God Loves Man Kills
I came across a post on the internet about this story by Claremont and Anderson, published in 1982, and had to check it out. I had heard about it, but never read it before. My first impressions are as follows. I saw some connections to the second X-Men movie and the political ramblings of extreme groups today. These feelings will never go away, but like in the comic, I believe that, someday, they will be exposed for the hatred and bigotry that they are. This was a vibrant story full of anger and beauty, raising questions that still resonate today. Hatred never goes away. It can be dismissed as just words, like the teacher said, but will never stop hurting. When Kitty told her teacher that the bully's comments about 'Mutie Lover' were just talk. Kitty responded with the statement what if he had said 'Nigger Lover', how would she feel? The black woman agreed with Kitty but did nothing else. As Cyclops says when he confronts Stryker in the climax, 'Are arbitrary la...