BBC
The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner – despite it being a fictional country.
A USDA spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test.
The department’s online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list of goods the two nations apparently traded, including ducks, donkeys and dairy cows.
In the Marvel universe, Wakanda is the fictional East African home country of superhero Black Panther.
The fictional country was removed soon from the list after US media first queried it, prompting jokes that the countries had started a trade war. More
michelle obama should run for its president.
I imagine the Democrats will now rally round in support of its free trade status.
Aren’t they just the smartest? What a relief that we have such intelligent people looking out for us. More government, more government, let’s have more government.
That’s pretty clever. I used to have co-workers in my company test my software to try to break it. It’s a good way to find weird “invisible gremlins” (TM) in the code. We would try all kinds of fictitious names in order to make it fun. Needed the participation in order to test it properly. When I released the results, we always had fun with how creative people were.
“…Wakanda is the fictional East African home…”
…yeah, about that. From Wakanda to wanting to speak Swahili to Uhuru in Star Trek to made-up Kwanzaa ceremonies, American Black peoples ALWAYS seek to identify with all things East African.
Trouble is, until very recently, Black people in America were mostly of WEST African descent.
…I dont recall if Alex Haley addressed this in that tiresome, rather fictitious “Roots” show that really kicked it into high gear, but, since most American Blacks consider themselves also to be descendants of slaves, then it should dawn on them that evil, lazy White slavers would scarcely bother to make the long and dangerous journey around the Horn of Africa for slaves, when they could just go right to it’s west coast and have some Arabs, and even other Blacks, hand-deliver them to the quays for a speedy and simple straight ride back to SELL them?
The answer is, they would NOT.
…so, leave Wakanda for Wakandans, and find something to be proud of in Senegal instead. Better yet, why not just identify as Americans? It’s been a long time since the Mother Country.
…and, with President Trump around, we’ve ALL – Black AND White – have PLENTY to be proud of right HERE, Colin Kapernick notwithstanding…
Wauconda is actually a town in northern Illinois. Pronounced the same as Wakanda.
Now they’re famous!
Black Twitter, already enraged that Trump refuses to leave office after peachment, is going to riot when they find out Trump has sanctioned Wakanda.
The land of Oz and middle earth are still in our trade list I hope.
SuperNS – the reason why a lot of black folks try to identify with east African places is because they’re too ashamed to admit their west African ancestors allowed themselves to get conned 300 years ago by some good ol’ boy Democrats from Georgia who went over to the west coast of Africa and said “Hey! Y’all wanna go SAILING’?”
How much US aid was given to it that wound up back in the pockets of Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Obama, Pelosi and the rest?
@Supernightshade — Thomas Sowell had the temerity to “go there” in his collection of essays: “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”. A great read from a great thinker/writer. (Except that time he became a Never Trumper with NRO.)
Wakanda is a technically advanced, stable, prosperous nation composed of only black people.
It’s the only place like it.
It also only exists in a fantasy movie.
Anonymous – all of it.
can you say ‘slush fund’, kiddies? … betcha’ can!
I went to Camp Wakanda…up in Rockland County somewhere…many years ago!
Any word on Narnia?