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This next news story from the Your Black World supply chain will virtually have you questioning the sanity of the U.S. government; particularly if you have not done so based on an abundance of reasons in the past.
The United Kingdom’s BBC News is one of the conduits, which provided the irrefutable truth about an absolutely insane move of stupidity by the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2018, director Ryan Coogler’s world-class sci-fi classic from Marvel Studios called Black Panther made a huge blast into America’s historic archive of all-time favorite movies.
An amazingly unique twist on the storyline of one of the most infamous heroes in the Marvel Comics lineage had fans conceptualizing a sequel directly after Coogler’s $200 million dollar debut. However, the “fi” in sci-fi is short for “fiction,” which is why this latest move of stupidity by the U.S. government is a real head-scratcher.
BBC’s Thursday (December 19) report on this unimaginable matter reads as follows:
“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. Wakanda first appeared in the Fantastic Four comic in 1966 and made a reappearance when Black Panther was adapted into an Oscar-winning film last year.”
A software engineer in New York named Francis Tseng discovered this embarrassing bureaucratic glitch while researching U.S agricultural tariffs as he applied for a fellowship. Speaking to the Washington Post, a spokesperson for the USDA released a statement by the federal agency that assumed responsibility.
“The Wakanda information should have been removed after testing and has now been taken down,” the USDA spokesperson said.
An apology for such a foul mix up may have been nice too. Banning the use of GMOs in the U.S. food supply chain would be the cherry on top. Let’s hear it for the dreamers.