There was another Captain America

The greatest patriot wants to defend his country during one of its direst hours but is deemed unfit for military service so instead he volunteers to be the test subject in a revolutionary experiment. The result: Steve Rogers is no longer a pushover but a powerhouse armed with a shield of the strongest metal. His codename is Captain America and he's in for a fight with the greatest villains of all time: the Nazis.
This is the story we know, but there is another one. Steve Rogers was not the only one to be used as a test subject of the Super Soldier serum, Isaiah Bradley was too. He was an African American sodlier, the only one, out of three hundred others, that survived. It was apparently easier for the U.S. government to spare his African-American soldiers than the Caucasian ones. Because the real serum was destroyed the day Steve Rogers became Captain America what Bradley received was a somewhat closer thing and he fully developed all his potential though he was heroic and managed to destroy the Super Soldier program that the Nazis were preparing. Bradley was incredibly sent to prison in his own country but given freedom in the sixties. Ever since he has kept a low profile and is mostly known to only known to other African-American heroes (of the Marvel universe of course). Currently Isaiah has a gradson that sports the powers and abilities that he had. This is for the blood trasfusion he received after receiving tremedous harm. Isaiah's grandson's codename? Patriot.

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Luis Bermudes said…
But it exists, stupid or not. <we must fight against it.
July 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM
cablepoderoso said…
I agree with you teacher -.- sometimes Im a victim of racism by very very very close people. I know is for make a joke but sometimes it butters me depend of the person who say it. But that treatment in Ecuador is too stupid. Ecuadorians are a "werid soup" of some races in the word including black race. So we are laughing about ourselves? I think we are.
August 2, 2012 at 11:50 PM
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