isn't the ladies' detective agency lead black? why not make a film out of that instead, that's a great series!
goddamnit this is what chafes me about racebending bullshit, they always go for characters that have been white by white people since inception, they never ever ever try to reach for actual characters/canons that are non-white from the start and have a shitton of lush mythos behind them. "Let's make Johnny Storm black instead of making a film about Sam Wilson or Luke Cage or Black Panther!!!! We have to shackle black folks to a white history hurr durr"
"we're not taking anything away from whites!!!"
actually yes, yes you are. erasing another cultural icon's heritage instead of supporting and promoting existing, popular PoC canons is stupid. would it be okay if ND was white but Jewish? A pale Armenian? does asphalting suddenly become bad when whitey comes from a culturally oppressed minority? why the fuck are people making the distinction?
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goddamnit this is what chafes me about racebending bullshit, they always go for characters that have been white by white people since inception, they never ever ever try to reach for actual characters/canons that are non-white from the start and have a shitton of lush mythos behind them. "Let's make Johnny Storm black instead of making a film about Sam Wilson or Luke Cage or Black Panther!!!! We have to shackle black folks to a white history hurr durr"
"we're not taking anything away from whites!!!"
actually yes, yes you are. erasing another cultural icon's heritage instead of supporting and promoting existing, popular PoC canons is stupid. would it be okay if ND was white but Jewish? A pale Armenian? does asphalting suddenly become bad when whitey comes from a culturally oppressed minority? why the fuck are people making the distinction?