Tony's always looked vaguely ethnic to me. Kinky quasi-afro hair, swarthy skin. So while it's not even close to the most racist retcon in Marvel history, it was colossally disappointing to find out that he was pure English, the most whitebread, vanilla choice of ethnicity for him imaginable. Finding this out was as boring as eating a soggy saltine cracker.
I think that's something of a stretch. Certainly when I used to read Iron Man comics he was drawn with the same sort of full-bodied hair artists tended to draw heroes with, not something I'd describe as "quasi-afro"; and you can see looking at the examples below that he was given the same skin colour as the red-headed Pepper Potts:
I can understand that people are disappointed with the stupid Hydra agent retcon, and that it was so explicit with Tony's parents ethnicity, but certainly when I read Iron Man his hair and skin-colour were depicted in the same fashion as other white characters. Myself, I would have left it vague so people could simply read into the character whatever ethnic origins they wanted, which might have left everyone happy. Still don't think it was a racist retcon, though.
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