Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-807326-20170308013636/@comment-7890302-20170310154232

UltimateTitan6 wrote: Steven Bomb 17 wrote: John Queen wrote:
 * 1) whitelivesmatter

SRSLY WHY ARE MOST COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS NOW CHANGED FROM WHITE TO BLACK? Because DC comics wants to be inclusive of everyone but the writers end up also changing people's personalities, for instance before rebirth Ace West was black but not really Wally West in that he was a jerk. I like what they did in The Flash in that Joe was a good dad and Wally, while kind of a jerk at first, was waaaaay more likeable. Personality has nothing to do with race. They changed Wally's race despite keeping his personality more or less the same (in season 3 at least).

I kind of agree with John Queen on this, and before people start calling me racist, YES I'm black. I totally understand that they want to include more races, but taking a famous character who has always been white and then slaping dark skin on them doesn't count in my book. You're just pasting another ethnicity over a well-known character, not making them unique or diverse. It's making race seem even more superficial than people already make it out to be. If people want more characters of different races, make new ones under new names, create their own titles, introduce them into the Flash/Arrow/Super family. It worked out for John Diggle and Jamie Reyes' Blue Beetle. And why only black people? Why is no one race-bending to other races? The West family, Jimmy Olsen, DCEU Perry White and Deadshot, Human Torch, all black (though I do think Perry and Deadshot are more fitting as black characters). Heck, it was even confirmed yesterday that Domino will be racebended to black in the next Deadpool movie (does this mean the diamond on her left eye will be white?). The only non-black racebend I can think of is maybe Wild Dog.

That said, I initially didn't like the idea of them using the black west family, or making Wally and Iris siblings rather than aunt and nephew for the reasons I stated above. But I actually grew to like them alot over time so it seems to work for this family. If the West Family has to be black, I'm glad they chose these actors for them. It does NOT, however work for Jimmy Olsen at all. They REALLY just decided name this guy Jimmy Olsen, rather than naming him Mal Duncan and actually being able to say that they added a legit black character?

Fun fact, making Wally black also disintegrated his two Asian children, so New-52, by making Wally black... has actually become LESS progressive.