This is what Phil Jimenez thinks:
https://twitter.com/iriswestbest/sta...03194772070401 (he retweeted this reply, also his statement is at the top)
Full post he retweeted:
I do like stories that address the fact that Clark is a literal "illegal alien" but I think in modern times for that metaphor to work, he cannot & should not be represented as a white man. It is an injustice & an insult to make a white man in America a symbol of xenophobia/racismThoughts?Having a white, dark haired and blue eyed alien be the metaphor for xenophobia and racism is very... mmmmm. I like Superman as a literal "illegal alien" and his creators were the children of Jewish immigrants so that metaphor does have a lot of meaning but when he's Visually represented as a very human looking white person with Christianity/Jesus parallels, then yes, the metaphor gets lost. Then it's just the typical fair of fantasy representation of Otherness using white people ��