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Comic-Reader Lad
All this talk about how a white character being white doesn't matter is troublesome on the face of it. No one would say that about any other group.
There is nothing about Cyborg or John Stewart that says they have to be black, but I don't think it would go over so well if they tried to make them another group.
I understand that there's tons of white superheroes and much fewer minority superheroes, but the idea that white superheroes and white people should be erased as a way to fix that has a subtext that's really unsettling.
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