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Huh? There's a Petition to Make Black Panther Less Black

Here we go again.

The cast of the upcoming Marvel offering, Black Panther, is overflowing with Black excellence with confirmed features from Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan and more. While many are celebrating the Black leading role, some aren't here for it, and they're going as far as creating a petition to get a "white representation" of the Black superhero.

In the change.org petition, the description reads, "Since there is a growing number of race swapped characters, the fans would also like a white representation of Black Panther, either as a white character or retconning T'Challa as a white man (or woman since his name is unisex). Thanks and let's make America Great Again."

The unapologetically and blatantly racist petition, allegedly — and ironically — created by a Black man, gained 648 supporters in two days, but some of the commenters seem more disgusted by the nerve of the bigoted creator.

"I've never read something so dumb in my life," on commenter wrote.

See who is set to direct the highly anticipated film in the BET Breaks video, above.

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