ComicsPriceGuide.com - hmmmm
Muhammad Rasheed - White creators make a blaxploitation-era "black character" and then pretends he's white. 🤨
That doesn't hit the way you imagined it did.
Christopher Corral - The only one that actually makes a difference would be Luke Cage. Because if he were white then it'd change everything. As for Hulk, Invisible Woman and The Thing though most of us wouldn't like the change had they been the originals I think all would be the same as they are now they'd just be known for those specific colors mentioned here.
Muhammad Rasheed - Christopher wrote: "Because if he were white then it'd change everything"
White creators make a fake "black character" —who isn't anchored to any lineage/heritage — and then arbitrarily make him white. What would that change exactly?
Brett Hampton - @Muhammad... What do you mean when you say "isn't anchored to any lineage/heritage"? I'm not challenging or arguing; just curious as to what your reasoning is.
Christopher Corral - @Muhammad... You serious? The character is black and was one of the few black super heroes at a time when black people had it more rough than today and so there was some relatability when Luke Cage's story took place in slum neighborhoods. The culture and personality also had to do with him being black. So if he had been white none of that would have been the same at all. What you want a white Luke Cage growing up in a black neighborhood beating up bad guys? That's just not relatable. Yes you have Spider-Man going into bad neighborhoods but the guy lived in a suburban neighborhood with his aunt so yeah definitely different.
Muhammad Rasheed - Brett wrote: "What do you mean when you say 'isn't anchored to any lineage/heritage?'"
Meaning, he comes across as unauthentic. Just a generic "black" figure designed to fill a quota so that a white-owned company can pretend to make some kind of phony social progress difference.
Muhammad Rasheed - Christopher wrote: "You serious?"
Yes.
Christopher wrote: "The character is black"
Is he though? What 'black' ethnic group does he belong to? The Black American descendants of slavery? Obama's black? Kamala's black? Miles Morales' black? As a Black man, how am I supposed to identify with a shallow, plastic "black" character created by a white man who didn't give a sh*t about those questions, and wouldn't be able to tell the difference?
Christopher wrote: "and was one of the few black super heroes at a time when black people"
...were pushed out of wealth-building media ownership and couldn't represent themselves. So white creators get to make money on fake "black" characters they publish to fill the void, and I get to hear shallow & weird justifications for this class systemic racism point by folks like you.
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| A Fake Hero to Fake Save Us from Real Systemic Racism by M. Rasheed |
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A Fake Hero to Fake Save Us from Real Systemic Racism
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CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "Fake Race Activism to Save Fake Racial Representation" Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 00 Date 20XX. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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