BAP Enthusiast said:
amercer said:
Everyone knows mermaids aren't real right? And imaginary things can be whatever the creators want them to be?
Wakanda isn't real either so why can't Black Panther be white?
You and The Debt keep making points like this, as if it's some kind of clever trump card, when it really just shows your willful ignorance.
I can't believe I have to explain this, but whites and blacks don't share a 50-50 split of the population, haven't equally controlled/been equally represented in film for the past 100 years, and, not to mention, whites enslaved blacks for 300 years prior to that, while blacks earned equal rights to whites only 60 years ago.
In other words, the race that so suffocatingly eclipsed nearly every facet of life for so long, particularly when it comes to film/pop culture, doesn't have the same claim to otherwise moronic questions like, "wHy cAN't BLaCk paNtheR bE WhiTe!!!???"
Because *whites* weren't the repressed, underrepresented race for the past 100 years of film history.Because there have been *countless* white superheroes depicted in film, and only a small handful of black superheroes depicted in film. Because, since the 1920s, the vast majority of Disney characters have been white, not black. Again, this isn't rocket science.
And this archaic idea that race representation in movies or music or entertainment in general should *only* equate to the exact racial makeup of our country is utter nonsense. Because, again... one of those races was actively held out of the spotlight for so long, disproportionate to their percentage makeup in terms of population.
So if Disney wants to make *one* of their previously white characters black, and doing so helps certain members of their community feel like they're finally getting their time in the sun, so to speak - especially when white people have enjoyed seeing themselves represented in Disney movies for 100 years now - I say go for it.
How can that *possibly* annoy you, given the context and circumstances?