re: #78 Renaissance_Man

Look, we gave black people the right to sit in the front of the bus. Sometimes they can even vote. We even let them get on TV as long as it’s playing some gladiatorial sport and they shut up and don’t talk a lot and stand for the national anthem. It’s a bit much to expect us to have movies about them. Black people with interesting stories and aspirations? Who’s going to believe that?

It’s not even that. It’s the idea that changing something about a character that doesn’t really alter the character is somehow disastrous. We saw this with the most recent Spiderman movie when people freaked out that Mary Jane is going to end up not being white.