Originally Posted by
godisawesome
The dissonance becomes frighteningly clear when you realize the insane double standard it’s actually backing: a “Protect those guys who keep an eye on others, and get your eyes off me!” ethos. From the guys who want cops to be able to shoot back people without any issue, and want to be able to shoot black people themselves as well, and know, on some level, that they themselves aren’t going to be suffering nearly that much from trigger happy cops, like the white guy who knew *he* could threaten cops with a gun, hit their car, and still just get arrested.
Little query I’d like to ask you about the black Superman idea, though...
Listen, I’m whiter than rice cake in a snow storm, so I *know* I’m liable to make an idiot out of myself in some discussion here, but: let’s say that Kal/Clark is black, but the Kents who adopt him aren’t. Now, there ain’t any real creativity or goal behind casting a black man as Clark if you ain’t going to address that elephant in the room.
But could you address being a black man raised in America with an adopted black Superman in a white family? Clark would still be experiencing racism himself regardless, while the bigger challenge I see is taking on the white farm parents specifically - I’ve lived in Kansas and Missouri, and I know there *are* some Democrats even in the country, but I also know they’re much rarer, and tend to have cantankerous relationships with the more overtly racist members of the community.
Could you portray Clark as a black man with a Golden Age-style chip on his shoulder and stubborn altruism, and still address race in America, even if he was raised by whites parents?