Kamala Khan (Photo : www.mondoweiss.net)
Images of Kamala Khan, the Captain Marvel character first featured in 2013, were plastered on anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim advertisements on San Francisco buses. While this kind of ads are not new, this anti-racism campaign has stirred the online community with the character's Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson tweeting regarding about it.
"Some amazing person has been painting over the anti-Muslim bus ads in SF with Ms. Marvel graffiti. Spread love," Wilson wrote.
The blog that represents the group behind this initiative, Bay Area Art Queers Unleashing Power or (BAAQUP) describes themselves as "a loose collective of arts activists with a long history of liberating public spaces and creating images to challenge the control of our lives by corporations, government and the assumptions promoted by mass media."
On Jan. 26, the group published images of their newest campaign in the BAAQUP blog post entitled, "Saying No To Hatred- With Superheroes!"
"Kamala won't let racism go unchallenged in our town, and neither will we," the post added, referring to the Marvel female superhero character.
American Freedom Defense Initiative, which is a hate group according to Southern Poverty Law Center, and its founder Pam Geller were mentioned in the same post. "The day after the Charlie Hebdo attack and the murders at the Paris' kosher grocery store, one of us texted another - 'Get ready because Pam Geller's coming to town," the blog cited.
BAAQUP is commending Marvel, along with another anti-racism group Street Cred, for using another route and making use of the power of comics to promote a real-life campaign.
The hate-filled ads were purchased by Geller and are distributed all over the buses' sides.
