I remember a time when I was 5 years old I thought the UK and France was the same :P

(In a similar matter as people thinking China and Japan are the same)

You are not reversely incorrect. Still, society tends to look at white on ___ oppression and see racism, while universally justifying any type of ___ on white oppression. When doing a cultural scorecard, someone forgot to mention the Irish, Scots, or Slavs. Not the right complexion for the connection, I suppose.

But people are demanding that Spiderman be changed. That's what got me writing this to begin with. And there are non-white/female/gay superheroes, quite a lot of female ones actually. But somewhere down the line someone decided that it wasn't enough and that the only way to make amends was to take some popular characters and change them or replace them with characters of the preferred race or gender. And though most of these weren't asked for plenty of left leaning people have praised this course as an improvement and a triumph for diversity, often before the comics were out.

As of Ms Marvel, some people would disagree with you I'll actually give a little and say she's cool in my book. She's not a replacement for Carol Danvers, she doesn't live on her legacy and isn't being pushed as an improvement on her predecessor


I don't get what you're saying here, "when original comic material is racist"? I'm guessing your not talking about the ink and paper actually talking about the text on which the film is based. Okay but you clearly said "most comics were/are very racist" without explaining why you think that. I've read quite a lot of old and new comics and I can't say that either modern artsy-indie comics or 1960 Marvel comics ever struck me as racist.

Now, now - I sort of rather think I asked a question you did not wish to hear - as opposed to a poorly presented one.

I asked: should Spiderman be out of bounds for a black incarnation - what is there, then realistically, if we cannot start with him?

Name those "plenty of non-white superheroes" fair n square - please do! Because I cannot.

That does not actually make sense as a question. At all.

That's twice today you've called me a lair, not cool. Any how for your reading pleasure Here are a mere 26. I wanted to get one for each letter of the alphabet but some letters are hard to find and I'm not going to spend more than 10 minutes on this.

Aqualad
Batwing
Black Panther
Cyborg
Doctor Mist
Darwin
Freedom beast
Green Lantern
Hotspot
Icon
Kid Quantum
Luke Cage
Mr Terrific
Night thrasher
Optica
Pantha
Photon
Quantum
Steel
Storm
Tempest
3D man
Vixen
War Machine
Yrial
Ziona

I hope this proves I'm not a lair at least.

Spawn!

My uncle is color blind. Well actually he forgot to cut eye holes in his hood so he's pretty much blind period.

I've always been aware of it since I had always understood that the physical features of race (skin color, hair texture, nose shape, facial structure, eye shape, eye color range, hair color range, etc.) were more like physical proof of a heritage, a culture, and a people.

There was also the fact that I was targeted by ghetto black and ghetto whites for being part Asian and when I felt I was being denied my Germanic heritage by getting oversimplified as "Korean." It was very insulting when I was referred to as "Chinese" since I am in no way shape or form related to China. Further awareness came in when I noticed black kids at school getting away with saying the "n-word" and being held to looser standards than the white ones. In fact, most of the racists I had to deal with were blacks who got away it since the faculty claimed to my white father that they were "not being racist but just being black."

Also, I became more aware when I noticed that blacks got to have their own month and could freely express pride in their race but if whites did something similar, they would get branded as "Nazis" or "racists."

As an adult, I became full aware of how selective those history lessons at public grade school really were. We were only taught about the enslavement of blacks but not the enslavement of the Irish or the Barbary Slave Trade. We definitely were not even given clues about the existence of black slaveholders like Anthony Johnson of colonial Virginia or the 2,700 confirmed black slaveholders of the 1850s.

As far as I'm concerned, racial differences are actually a good thing. It gives people an appreciation of each other and of themselves. I actually believe in embracing it as a means of supporting human biodiversity unlike the fake diversity that is simply about replacing whites with non-whites.

Strom?
Seriously? :P

Also you forgot Catwoman and I'm not just talking about that god awful movie; Ertha Kitt played her in the series.

Oh and the Human Torch is black in the new Fantastic Four.

And Nick Fury.

Spawn's cool. But I was trying to stick to Marvel and DC where possible and I already had two S's. No disrespect meant towards Spawn :)
Comics only! I'm not counting those cini-movy-motion-picture things! ;)

I'm just throwing another name in there is all! heheh

Oh like I've ever read a comic book! :P

Oh and Blade. (him and Nick Fury are black in the comics!)

Doesn't matter, everyone knows The Hoff is the definitive Nick Fury.

Yeah and Reb Brown is Captain America! :P