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nuckles87 said:
Lawlight said:
Changing a character from white to black is just pure pandering. Just like the black James Bond. There are more Asian people in the UK than black and, yet, everyone is clamouring for a black James Bond but not an Asian one.

You call it pandering. A lot of us would call it progressive...


As an Asian (mostly) born American with an ethnic mixed daughter, there is too much pandering.  But for the record, Samuel L. Jackson makes a great Nick Fury because his characterization fits the no-nonsense, bare nuckles, in-your-face militant attitude of the comic counter part.  That's true progessivism when the solution works because it's the proper to the scenario.  But by and large, "progressive" has been confused from bending forwards and taking it up the...