Originally Posted by
BatmanJones
First, and I won't speak to your intention because I don't know your intention, "I don't see color" is typically a convenient way for white people to dismiss the various plights of BIPOC people. “I'm not racist, I don't see color, everyone's just a person" disregards the history of racism/white supremacy in America and the world, a history that continues today, and is an actually racist statement in itself. How nice to be able to ‘not see race,’ a privilege that’s afforded only to white people. BIPOC people don’t have that option. They don’t get to not see color. They live their color, and the consequences of having been born as they were, every single day.
Second, the complaints of politics and especially "social justice warriors" as if they don't have a place in comics disregards the origins of superhero comics. Superman was created to be a SJW. Now when he's written that way, as in Morrison's New52 Action Comics, people complain that that very fact, central to his original stories, is "out of character" and too political.
Social justice, or more to the point social injustice, wasn't 'injected' into comics by journalists or other insidious outside forces; it was the inspiration for superheroes to begin with. Superman was not created to be an escape from reality; his creators endowed him with great powers so that he might overcome great injustices that existed in their actual world and ours. His earliest adventures didn't have him fighting monsters or space aliens. He was fighting corruption and speaking truth to power while he did it.
And when we say the word political in the context of this discussion, let's be straight about it: we're talking about race. Maybe one day systemic racism will be "old news" like you say. That would be awesome. But we're not going to get there without acknowledging the existence of the white supremacy that perpetuates even today. It's been with us since before the founding of this nation and it isn't going away anytime soon. I would love for those things that divide us politically to be "old news," but they literally never, ever have. Sadly, they're not going out of style anytime soon.
Representation is a critical step forward. That anyone, especially a superhero fan, would prefer to stand in place or even step backward, to disregard the greatest injustice/evil in our nation's history, makes my heart ache and my brain explode.