Question: Where you around when Aquald/Kaldur was first introduced? Because I was, and I remember people calling himĀ āBlaqualadā from the second his face appeared on the promo.Ā
Not to mention many people had said he was going to die by the end of the season anyway. He was either hated or ignored once the show started, and once he took the position of leadership, a VERY popular trope was that he would die a glorious death so that Robin could take hisĀ ārightful placeā as head of the team.Ā
There are plenty of other examples. Take the hatred Miles Morales got (and still gets) even though both he and Peter have been able to exist together.Ā
Take the hatred Riri Williams got during her introduction.
Most people are more than happy to erase Duke Thomas as one of Bruce Wayneās ākidsā despite the fact that heās an original character who isnāt taking anyoneās mantel.Ā
Cyborg has been criticized as ānot belongingā to the Justice League since the beginning of New 52. Hell, if anything, yaāll should be happy that Cyborgās there, because now they donāt have to racebend a white person. But, nope.Ā
Then there was Rue from the Hunger Games (played by Ā Amandla Stenberg) who was black in both the movie and the source material, and yet people still went to twitter to express how they ācouldnāt sympathizeā with her anymore.Ā
Weāve got Michael Burhnam, whoāll be leading the new Star Trek series and people are pissed off about a Black woman in the lead role.Ā
Letās not forget how the Star Wars fandom felt about having a āBlack Stormtrooperā before anyone knew anything about who John Boyega was even playing.Ā
If you were in the Glee fandom, youāll probably remember how much shit Mercedes got for being just as ambitious as the rest of the Glee kids. And then of course, there were the people saying she didnātĀ ādeserveā Sam Evans.Ā
And then thereās the entire cast of The Get Down that is routinely slept on.
There are the people who demonize Tāchalla and call him selfish for wanting to Avenge his father (who by the way was the acting monarch of a nation, so Tāchallaās quest for answers was also a way of preventing a political fallout.)Ā
And I havenāt even mentioned Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, Mike Peterson, Luke Cage, Ā John Stewart, Amanda Waller, Ben Sisko, or Ororo Munroe. Iāll give you a hintā¦all of those characters are crapped on and held to a ridiculously high standard that white characters arenāt held to.. .
So, instead of saying āMake your own original charactersā instead, yaāll can just say, āI donāt want Black people in my storiesāĀ
At least then, itāll save us all some time. Ā
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