| Soundwave said: Sure they are on in TV as the "token black guy/girl". People still have a stick up their ass about a black/minority actor in what is a "major" role, and that was proven pretty clear when some idiots couldn't deal with there being one black Stormtrooper in a Star Wars movie. There are like 30 superhero movies with dozens of characters and like 5 black people in them, and even then some people complain that Nick Fury is played by Sam Jackson when the rest of the Marvel Universe is whiter than vanilla ice cream. In 20-30 years, "colored" folk will be the majority in America, the demographics of what is shown on screen lags woefully behind. |
What does "token black guy/girl" even mean?
First, so what if there's 5 black people in the superhero movies? That's still way more than all the other non-white races combined. Secondly, there's plenty of black people in the superhero movies as there's plenty of racebending to get more black people in them. They even made Deadshot black.
As for "colored" folk making up the majority in America, we're not there yet so that bridge will be crossed when it happens. Also, you do realise that "colored" people doesn't consist of one race, right? And no other race is overrepresented - just black people are.
