... or it could be the most genius.  I'm not even sure how I feel about it myself as it was just a passing thought that I expanded on.  Any who, without further ado...
We're all familiar with the similarities between the X-Men and the Civil Rights movement in America.  Professor X has a dream just like Martin Luther King and Magneto wants separation from or destruction of the other race a la Malcolm X.  Pretty cool stuff right?  If you look a little deeper at just Wolverine though you might find a few more similarities to the African American struggle.  Let's turn the page back to Wolverine's origin.

Wolverine's father worked basically as a slave for a very wealthy family.  Wolverine's father and brother lived on the quarters but not in the main house.  Wolverine himself who was "mixed" got to live with "massah."  He would be comparable to what many would consider a "house negro." While Sabretooth and dad had to work the fields.

Now if you turn the page to a more recent Wolverine we find a few more similarities.  To this day Sabretooth holds a grudge towards Wolverine possibly because of this preferential treatment from society.  Very similar to the way many darker skinned African Americans act towards African Americans with fairer skin.

Coincidence?  Likely... but perhaps there's more to the story than meets the eye.

Wolverine's biological father Thomas Logan worked for them as a groundskeeper. He was not a slave. John Howlett Jr believed Wolverine was his son. He was unaware his wife slept with Wolverine's biological father.

So what do we learn from this? that Black Panther is destined to fight his "Fairer skinned" brethren and is to forever hold a grudge against him.

Sabertooth is not his brother except in the movie

Very good observations... I'm not implying that the story fits exactly or else it wouldn't be a story about Wolverine.  I could easily point out that Martin Luther King never had a mansion where he taught black people to overcome... that doesn't change the fact that the story borrowed heavily from what was going on during the time.

i think you're stretching the situations in coincidents... I don't think working for other people in the fields means you're definetly a racial metaphor, neither does having a grudge against someone represent attitudes towards the lightness of skin...

I opened up acknowledging that my ideas may be out there but many literary critics have made the connection between the mutants of the X-Men representing many different minority groups including African Americans.  To go back to a time to where slavery still existed and tell a story where one of these minorities is working on a field seems a bit more than coincidental.

It's not just the "African American" struggle, no offense but people need to look beyond those bounds, all over the world people are treated differently because of race, religion, country of origin, or color.

I've always felt the X-Men draw from all over the spectrum. More than anything on McCarthyism, and racism.

Darker Black people really dislike Lighter Black people??  Why?

I'm trying not be rude but dude you need to pay attention when you read books or stop the Cassandra Cain illterate act cause its not cute. The people before me said the main obvious flaws in your ridiculous speculation.

As a minority myself who comes from a REAL CREOLE family who do treat their dark skin siblings unfairly, I do not see what the hell you are about. I dont see a comparison between Wolverine and I don't know.....Colin Powell.  

Wolverine *ahem* excuse me James wasn't mixed. He was a caucasion canadian just like the Logans who were caucasion canadians. John didnt believe in slavery and didnt mind paying people(no matter the color) to work. Canadians were known for being very work friendly towards runway slaves or hell just about anyone who came willing to work and make money. 

The situation that happened to Logan is something quite common with farmhands. That's just life that has nothing to do with slavery. It was all about Dog who got physcially abuse a lot by his dad which in time he develop psychological issues and he vents his frustration at animels or anyone who tries to be close. James was too young to know any better. Race nor even Status had nothing to do with this story.

If you paid attention to what year the story took place it was common for groundskeepers to live on their employers estate. John Hewlett jr treated all of his employees with respect no matter the background. Dog really didnt have that much of a struggle. He only had a hard life cause he was getting physically abuse by his father. If his father wasn't an abusive drunk and didnt tap the employer's wife who also was a drunk, Dog's life would have been so much different.

I think John Jr himself wasn't oppressing anyone. He put up with Dog's behaviour and I thought he was a little too fair by not pym-slapping Dog for the stuff he did.

There is no hidden message about the struggles of the black man in this story. You are just being retarded and making us minorities look bad.

Wolverine: origns makes more of a statement on class warfare than on racism

Ok...I apologize about that last comment. But you didnt make yourself clear about the "mix" issue beside Jame's mutant power didnt even manifest yet so really there was no reason why that should have been an issue.

I know what you are saying about Field and house negroes but using Wolverine Origin is not it.  If you want to use an example of that research the origin story of the third White Tiger. Kevin "kasper" Cole. A light skinned cop who got nickname kasper cause he ws so light-skinned and his dad was nickname "Blackjack" casue he so dark like Forest Whitaker's lips.

If you redid this thread using Whiter Tiger's story as an example ok then you might have been on to something. This is like using

His first appear in in Black panther #50 Vol 2. It was during Christopher's priest run. He is in only like 15 issues.

He is also in this 7 issue series called The Crew. You might find that interesting.

He's basically an americanized black panther but he's mixed and poor.. He's half black and half jewish and his girlfriend who is pregneant is Korean or Asian I think. They all live the same house and do not like each other.