Which of DC's Black Characters Has the Most Potential to Achieve Trinity Status?

[lemonpeace]

I'm a black person, and, yes, the name bothers me. Along with Black Goliath, Black Racer, Black Manta, Black Spider, Vykin the Black... The creators couldn't see the character beyond their race when naming them. Bronze Tiger comes close too. Don't know how Vixen didn't end up as Black Vixen, given the era.

Black Panther gets a pass because that's the name of an actual animal and fits the setting.

well I'm sorry you feel that way but you gonna have to get a thicker skin. there are far more deeply problematic things in this industry in regard to how characters of color are treated. they couldn't see pass their color? good, if they didn't see color they would've made them a bunch of white guys. I'm over the argument that the only good black representation is representation that's not allowed to overtly mention race. c'mon bruh, the whole story reasoning he's called Black Lightning in the first place is because he wanted them to understand that it was a black man putting you in jail; that's a character statement I can get behind. how is acknowledging who he is somehow more or as problematic as someone like Cyborg being the only black face on the Justice League but getting sonned, cancelled, retconned, and ripped apart regularly? how is that more problematic than DC letting there biggest asset in regards to characters of color (Milestone) be held up in legal limbo this long? how is him being able to acknowledge he's black even a topic when DC's biggest and damn near only asset in characters of color is a brand that's been in legal limbo for almost a decade now? how is it more problematic than letting both of your most recognizable black characters (John Stewart and Vixen) be mishandled for over 2 decades? I'm sorry to rant here but I simply reject that premise, pardon the hyperbole, but it's like being mad that the sign say "NO BLACKS ALLOWED" instead of "NO AFRICAN AMERICANS ALLOWED".

i guess we can agree to disagree, and I didn't mean to rant but I'm just over this argument because it feels like yet another instance of the hyper-rationalizing of characters of color that always seems to hold them back. every black character gotta jump through these unnecessary hoops that, by the time we get through, they are so inoffensive and irrelevant that they get swept under the rug. then we turn around and wonder why there aren't more characters of color in the upper echelons. I'll rephrase what said before, if this is a matter of what's stopping these black heroes from being up there on Trinity or even Aquaman/Green Lantern/Flash status, there are far more problematic things holding characters of color back than the black guy having black in his name