Originally posted by spiderman44
u gy need top read the bible aye jesus is not a race hes a godbut im black nd i think all black people r razy and i dont care wat u guys say wolverines black he act black nd green lantern maybe could spawn can if darkseid count as a ashy black guy then i geuss him
Actually, the whole point of Jesus was for him to be human. Meaning human, and everything that goes along with it, including a definite shape. And farting, but we're not going to get into making millions on "bottled Jesus farts". Anyhoo, since Jesus did live around Isreal his entire life, it stands to reason that he would look like everyone else from that area.
Jesus wasn't black.
The bible never actually said he had black skin, it said he had skin like fine brass, which is slightly darker than gold.
His hair was like wool, which could have meant kinky, thick or even white/grey.
The discovery channel broke it down pretty good, they showed what the average isreal citizen looked like back then and they looked closer to bin laden than a black guy.
It really warms my heart that such considered and thoughtful discussion can spring forth from these boards....
But seriously, there is a huge imbalance favoring Anglo/Germanic superheroes. It's a shame that a black, latin, or asian characters are such a rarity in comic books. If I made a new superhero for a mainstream universe--Marvel or DC--and I made him black, I bet you a large number of readers would, even if they didn't admit to themselves or others, wonder if I was trying to make a "statement."
This other thing that really disturbs me is why marketers or editors seem to think "ethnic" characters will only appeal to their "demographic." What, exactly, keeps a white reader from relating to Luke Cage? I've known lots of black kids who thought Batman and Wolverine were the shit, there doesn't seem to be any such "barrier" in that direction.
But that mentality leads to ethnic characters that are little more than stereotypes. Christopher Priest talked about this sort of thing on his website, and it's a really telling examination. You have these middle-aged white writers trying to write a "credible," black character that the "black demographic" can relate to, and the results are jive-talking "street tough" blacks. This isn't to knock Luke Cage, who's come a long way since his somewhat kitsch origin, but think of the lamentable "Snap Wilson" story--stuff like that is not needed anywhere, where you take a black character who was meant to stand for something better (Sam Wilson's original origin was a social worker) and turn him into a Blaxploitation archetype. That story ruined The Falcon, and the character's never recovered. That's exactly what the comic industry DOESN'T need.
I want more color in my comics.
http://www.blacksuperhero.com/exhibits2.cfm this is to funny