Just finished Falcon and Winter Soldier.
Overall, a pretty good series, but it's unnecessarily marred by Disney's hamfisted politicking.
Very little of that aspect of the show makes sense, and quite a lot of it actually hurts the plot both by slowing it down on side-stories that don't really matter and by undercutting Sam's previous actions.
For example:
Sam would have been one of the most recognizable individuals on the planet just as a byproduct of being an Avenger, even before "the blip". After the blip? He would be a global superstar whose face and name was plastered all over the media in every country, in every language. We know there are action figures and merch in this universe and kids everywhere would probably have Falcon trading cards.
This, in turn, would all but guarantee that he had massive income opportunities in addition to his government contracts, which alone would probably bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
And that's if we accept that Tony Stark didn't pay the Avengers or set up any kind of family funds for them, even though we can be sure that he absolutely did.
So to pretend that he can't get a bank loan from the bank his family has decades of history with is absurd... To add that into the story makes no sense at all, unless your goal is to set up one of several beats that try to push a narrative of black oppression.
Same with the bit in Baltimore where cops roll up out of nowhere at all just to harass him.
Pretending that Captain America (Steve) would not have any way to understand race relations in America is bafflingly stupid.
I can't even begin to make sense of that.
Part of the problem with woke idiots is that they seem to believe that the world has gotten worse for minorities, instead of much, much better. It's a shitty, divisive, intellectually bankrupt grift that has led lots of people to believe in their own victimhood and to shoehorn it into a story about Sam Wilson feels like a huge insult to his character.
This is a man who was an elite soldier in a winged special forces unit who then became a good PTSD counselor, and eventually a superhero.
Everybody has struggles, but you literally can't be that guy if you believe that you are an oppressed victim.
Perpetually aggrieved people do not do great things.
All this stuff cheapens Sam's character. He is not "Black Falcon", as people keep calling him. He is Falcon. He is a peak individual who stands out not because of his race, but because of his abilities and heroic actions. To reduce him to his skin color is insulting.
And when we get to his overlong speech at the end of the last episode, it just brings together a bunch of crap that isn't really helping anyone.
You must have missed the part of the series where they addressed one of the kids in Baltimore who called him 'Black Falcon'. Either that, or you skipped over it because it didn't fit your narrative.
Your assumptions about Sam's financial situation are also just that, assumptions. They're no more valid than the assumptions Disney used to set up their 'politically motivated' agenda.
I don't know if you're just tone deaf to your own words, or if you really don't see the hypocrisy. You're not angry that there was a 'political' motivation to some of the plot, you're angry that it didn't fit the political motivations you're used to seeing. If this plot had been white-washed the way you would like it, that's also politically motivated.
The statement about Steve Rodgers being unable to comprehend the ramifications of handing the shield to a black man was abolutely true, no matter how dumb you think it is. There is no way that a white boy who grew up during segregation, then spent most of his life as the most powerful and influential white person on the planet, would be able to understand the extra pressure a black man would bear while holding that shield. He could try, but nothing in his experience would give him a frame of reference to understand.