Comments on: The Case for Black Racism.

By: Gayle Jenkins

Gayle Jenkins — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:19:58 +0000

I never understand how black people make a big deal out of minuscule details. Stories of fiction is cause for week long debates on whether the black character was good enough to play the part. Black women get mad at the texture of a characters hair,whether they are too light or dark skinned, complain if there aren’t enough black characters in a commercial, then cry racism because there are too many.

I think black people need a brain, common sense and better communication skills. If we all talked to each other as if we were speaking with a white person, we’d like each other more, and more common sense would take place in the psyches of black people.

B;lacks seem to be the only ones calling each other house niggas and coons, so there should be no wonder that it’s blacks’ that keep any kind of racism going. It’s ingrained on their psyche.

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By: jdean

jdean — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:20:49 +0000

Great point. I always said what you have been saying. They supplant our real historical figures and they have a cow when we play their fictional super hero characters.

By: Independent_Systems

Independent_Systems — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:11:17 +0000

Darrick we can never create our own “new” blockbuster superheroes…perhaps if integration never happened but since it did it won’t work. There is no interest and no market…Nevermind race dominant relations would South Africans enjoy a Boehr or Indian hero recast? Of course not it would be akward etc (if they have/had superheroes or some cultural sort)

Still we have in 2018 Black Panther (he signed for 5 movie appearances so it will likely be a movie trilogy if the box office is decent

Also Falcon could one day become Captain America in a REBOOTED franchise when Captain America dies. (Not this franchise of 2008-2019 The Winter Soldier Bucky will become one next year)

A few years ago a black-latino spiderman was born when the original peter parker died.

Star Wars is getting Finn as a LEAD CHARACTER plus the return of Lando and possibly more blacks in near-future movies.

Since Robert Downey Junior IS Iron Man when he leaves there could be a War-Machine spin-off.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:52:01 +0000

@Darrick Herndon:
I wouldn’t say that casting a black man as a fictional character is wrong. The reason the comic book purists didn’t holler as loud when Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Nick Fury (who is also white in the Avengers comic book) is because it was Samuel L. Jackson. Michael B. Jordan doesn’t yet have that hubris among a lot of the comic book crowd. Did he give them too much? Maybe, and only time (and box office receipts) will tell if the casting decision was a good or bad choice.
While the title is somewhat hyperbolic I do stand behind the fact that there has yet to be a verifiable equivalent of white institutionalized racism as it has played out in this country. The opposite of white racism therefore isn’t black racism but rather resistance. That resistance can take many forms and, overtime, has metastasized into variant forms of violence and mayhem against our own.
Thank you for your comment.

By: Darrick Herndon

Darrick Herndon — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:43:37 +0000

Friendly advice to the writer, this column was about Johnny Storm and nothing about black racism. I for one am tired of black people complaining about and reacting to these kinds of slights. I understand the actors response, but he gave them too much. Until we have our own, then we can expect this. Until we create our own blockbuster Superheroes, we’ll always be cast in a whitean’s silouhette and the critics will not be entirely wrong. You were right about the whitewash of “historical” figures. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I’m happy for Michael B and I understand the racism of the purist. I expected this piece to be about defensive racism and it’s really just a piece about a comic book hero.