Johnmourby: This mental inactivity was broken recently when I was called a racist for saying I was happy with Peter Parker as Spiderman rather than a black guy. For what it's worth I never like it when a white male character is replaced and a black guy or a woman for the sake of diversity, and if that make me racist.... Sorry?
So, was I unusually for being colour blind for so long? Does everyone do through this revelation? Do some people see different races from three years old? Can racial awareness be a good thing? Should Ben Affleck Play Barack Obama even though Obama is only half white?
Should the question not rather be: why is Spiderman - and about each and every other comic superhero white - or maybe a "creature", in fact?
Which one would you see played by a black, then, if Spiderman is "out of bounds"?
Was this not maybe the question you were asked, as opposed the all-in "racist" accusation, I wonder?
Probably none, you say... because they are not there. I read some comics - Modesty Blaise, Sandman, Larson, Hergé for the main - and the leads are all white, though one female at least in case of Peter O'Donnell.
And it was Rosa Parks, actually, at the Back of the Bus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks