The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 1938 Negotiating Conditions! (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!)

In fact, Nick Fury is not the only one who thinks so.

The same was true for everyone else, including Emma. Emma looked at Tony strangely... thinking that Uncle Tony was so old, but he was still so... well, straightforward. It was really not easy.

These looks made Tony so angry that he leaned back. Who the hell was he looking down on? He was a capitalist after all. What did capitalists do? They were the ones who used big cakes to trick people into working for them... He was a capitalist! He was the kind of person who would be happy to be hung on a street lamp, but now he was looked down upon by others... Even children were among them. Who the hell could stand this?

Tony is not so naive. Isn't it that Nick Fury is too good at pretending? For a person to pretend to be diligent for decades is not something that ordinary people can do. As someone once said: A hypocrite, if you pretend for a lifetime, you will become a real gentleman!
Nick Fury is pretty much the same.

In the past, when he was the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who the hell didn't respect him? Even those who hated him the most had to admit that Nick Fury was a man dedicated to his duties. Does President Benjamin dislike Nick Fury?

So annoying!

In fact, after Nick Fury came to power, no president liked Nick Fury. This thing is the same as Hoover. The rise of the FBI was closely related to President Roosevelt, but President Roosevelt still didn't like Hoover and even thought about reducing his power, but later the situation made it impossible. After Roosevelt, no president liked Hoover, but no one could do anything about him.

But no one thought Hoover would commit treason.

The same is true for Nick Fury. All incumbent presidents dislike Nick Fury, and every president dislikes this disobedient director of SHIELD. But no one really believes that Nick Fury is a villain who harms the public interest for his own benefit.

Even the enemies suppressed by SHIELD think the same way. They hate Nick Fury for his immortality, but they never thought that Nick Fury would betray SHIELD one day.

This is the character, the kind that is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Tony was fooled.

"Fuck..." Tony was speechless. Although Tony basically didn't need to paint a rosy picture for others, the capitalists' tactics were all the same. He never expected that one day he would be fooled by such a crude trick.

I actually believed what Nick Fury said.

However, Nick Fury doesn't really want to fight to the death. It's not that he really cares about the world, but he wants better conditions.

He wants to survive from death.

The premise is to make it clear to the demand side that he is the seller and this market is a seller's market, so he must show enough indifference to let them know that even if the deal is not reached, it doesn't matter to him, after all, he is not the one who is anxious. Only in this way can he ask for a high price.

Seeing that the emotions were right, Nick Fury could no longer pretend to be cool. Otherwise, if the other party really thought he had no desires, he would be finished.

"Let's make a deal, Kai!" Nick Fury put away his sarcastic attitude, but his attitude was not too low. Although he was already a prisoner, if he wanted to take the initiative in the negotiations, he could not show a weak position. So even though he was in a miserable state now, he still behaved very high.

"Trade?" Kai raised his eyebrows and looked at Nick Fury with interest: "Do you think you still have a chance?"

Kai looked Nick Fury up and down, and the meaning was self-evident.

"It doesn't matter what I am like. What matters is that I have what you want. Compared to me, Black Manta is what you care about most... No, it should be said that Black Manta is just a bigger bug to you. You don't care about him. You only care about that artifact. And I happen to be able to find them." Nick Fury did not express too much emotion about his situation, but went straight to the point.

At this time, you must not lose face, even if your teeth are broken, just swallow them! Negotiation is like this, if you are soft, then you are finished, and wait for others to take advantage of you.

"But you have all the people in my hands, so why should I be afraid of not being able to get any information?" Kai said disdainfully.

"Haha... Kai, really?" Nick Fury finally laughed disdainfully: "Do you know why I am called the King of Agents? This title is not given to me by others after I became the Director of SHIELD. I became the Director of SHIELD with this nickname. I am not the kind of nerd who sits in the office waiting for a promotion. My progress is all earned through my hard work step by step!"

This is not Nick Fury bragging.

The reason why Nick Fury was able to hold a high position in his life, besides having someone to support him, the most important thing was that he had solid achievements as a foundation!

Again, black people of Nick Fury's age are completely different from black people who grew up in this era. No matter how serious discrimination is in the United States, in most places, black people still have a relatively fair competitive environment, which is the benefit of the progress of the times.

Even though discrimination still exists, their hidden upper limit is yet to be seen.

Although "equality" is one of the core values ​​that the United States has always respected, the United States is still a society dominated by whites, and whites' domination over minorities in all aspects further deepens racial inequality.

For example, voting rights are treated differently. The United States still restricts the voting rights of ethnic minorities at the legal level. During the 2012 election, after the voting rate of African Americans exceeded that of white people for the first time in history, the Federal Supreme Court ruled to give local governments greater autonomy in voting rules and systems. Subsequently, many states implemented stricter election registration and identity verification systems, setting off a new wave of suppression of ethnic minority voting rights. Before and after the 2020 election, states such as Iowa, Arizona, and Georgia successively introduced legislation to make it more difficult for people of color and immigrants to participate in voting. A report released by the Center for American Progress in 2019 pointed out that as of 2016, there were still about 950 million adults in the United States who could not fully enjoy the right to vote, accounting for about 3% of the total US population, most of whom were people of color. In 2017, the rates of discrimination against African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans in voting and participating in politics were 19%, 15%, 7%, and 10%, respectively, far higher than the 4% of white people.

With such blatant discrimination on the issue of voting rights, the results of the US elections are predictable: ethnic minorities are extremely lacking in political representation. In the more than 240 years since the founding of the country, the United States has only elected one African-American president, one African-American vice president, and 1 African-American federal senators. In the 1th US Congress, which will take office in 11, the number of minority federal senators and representatives accounted for 2021% of the total number of members, the highest level in history, but it is still far from the current proportion of ethnic minorities in the US population of 117%. Among the nine justices of the US Supreme Court in office, only Sotomayor (Latino) and Thomas (African) are from ethnic minorities, and only three of the 23 justices in the history of the United States (including the above two) are from ethnic minorities. Such an unbalanced proportion is shocking. At the local level, among the current governors of the 39.3 states in the United States, only the governor of Hawaii (whose ancestral home is Okinawa, Japan) and the governor of New Mexico (Latino) are ethnic minorities. These huge disparities in data reflect the cruel reality of American society: ethnic minorities have always been "second-class citizens" in American political life.

Another example is the invisible discrimination in employment and income. According to statistics, the average and median assets of white American families are $98.34 and $18.82, respectively, while the average and median assets of African American families are $2.41 and $14.25, respectively, and the average and median assets of Latin American families are $3.61 and $16.55, respectively. In the two age groups of under 35 and 35-54, the proportion of African American families who own homes is 17% and 51%, far lower than the 46% and 73% of white families. From 1972, when the U.S. Department of Labor began to calculate the unemployment rate of African Americans, to 2019, the average unemployment rate of African Americans was more than twice that of white people, and their wages were also significantly lower than those of white people. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the first quarter of 2, the median weekly wages of African Americans and Latinos were $2021 and $799, respectively, far lower than the $750 of white people. The gap is staggering. At the same time, ethnic minorities have almost fallen to the "bottom of the food chain" in the American job market, shouldering all the dirty and tiring work.

A study by the Center for American Progress pointed out that the combined African-American, Asian-American, and Latino workforce accounts for 36% of the total U.S. workforce, but in the job market, 70% of nannies and housekeepers, as well as 74% of baggage handlers and front desk clerks are from these minorities. According to the Los Angeles Times, American companies systematically discriminate against African Americans in terms of hiring, compensation, and promotion. Take Facebook as an example. In 2019, only 1.5% of the company's technical staff were African Americans, and only 3.1% of its senior leaders were African Americans. The number of employees at the company has increased by 5% in the past five years, but the above proportions have not changed at all.

A former black president of the United States once said: "Racial discrimination still exists in every system of American life, has far-reaching effects, and is still part of our genes." Jeh Johnson, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, said: "If the definition is broad enough, it can be considered that every institution in the United States has systemic racism."

This invisible discrimination is everywhere, but it is hard to find its real place. The most obvious one is that blacks or other minorities have much less chance of being in high positions than whites. You can see this even in the real world. Most of the senior officials in the United States are white, except for cabinet members appointed by the president. But the majority of power is still held by white people.

This is even now! It is much higher than the black people in Nick Fury's era!
If Nick Fury wants to break through the layers of restrictions, it is not enough to rely on the support of others, because this is systemic. It is not the subjective malice of one or a few people, but from top to bottom. Even black people themselves have accepted such discrimination and think it is justified.

Therefore, even if Alexander and Carter both want to promote Nick, they cannot go against public opinion, unless Nick Fury has achievements that are beyond reproach if he is promoted.

Otherwise, Alexander and Carter wouldn't be able to speak.

And these achievements cannot be achieved by just sitting in an office. In fact, working in an office does help you get promoted quickly, but... this does not apply to black people.

At least not for ambitious black people; you have to make real achievements.

So Nick Fury really went through thick and thin before he was finally recognized and became the king of agents!

"You don't think I'm just a fool on the surface like those kids who are learning to be 007 now, do you? I've received complete anti-torture training, and I've been captured by the enemy before. I've been tortured in all kinds of ways. Let's see who's more powerful, or who I can endure more?"

For people like Nick Fury, physical pain like torture is not terrible. He is the kind of guy with extreme ambition. He always knows what he wants. He can endure torture. He is not even afraid of death. What he cannot endure is dying in obscurity!

He is destined to achieve something, and if he wants to do something, he cannot die!

So compared to death, nothing else is worth fearing!
"give it to me."

Hannibal, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interrupted and said, "Don't forget what I do. The dead are sometimes more likely to speak than the living. Just give him to the hounds as a teething stick for a while, and he will be able to say anything."

The hounds hunt souls and feed on souls. This is both true and false.

They do feed on souls, but they do not catch them and swallow them in one gulp. This would be tasteless to the hounds. They prefer to torture the souls, making them feel extreme pain and torment, and then swallow them.

So if you say they feed on pain, there's nothing wrong with that.

At least eating souls alive is the biggest waste for them.

When the others heard this, their faces changed. If someone else said this, they would at most think that this person was mentally ill. Who was he trying to scare by saying such nonsense?
But Hannibal...it's hard to say.

This guy is so weird.

As mysterious as Hannibal is Kai's other alias, the Knight King.

However, the image of the Knight King is more positive, and everyone assumes that he is a good person.

But Hannibal... Hannibal never actively promoted himself, but no matter who it is, they like to associate him with dirty and smelly things.

Fortunately, they are all Kai's clones, so he doesn't care and there is no problem.

“Then come on.” Nick Fury was also scared to death deep down in his heart. After all, he didn’t know the difference between the torture of the soul and the torture of the body. He was not sure if he could withstand it, but for the sake of face, he would never give in: “However, I remind you that my soul belongs to the Dark Trident! So the moment you kill me, my soul will be taken away by the Dark Trident.”

This is also one of his trump cards... but he is not sure if it is true, he has never tried it...