Originally Posted by
davetvs
I agree with you, but even that is less about the validity of the metaphor and more about the fact that 99% of X-Men writers throughout history have been white men. There is only so much you can do with the metaphor and its related nuances if you do not understand them, because you haven't lived them. There are white writers like Ewing who write characters of color very well, but I have been dying for an actual persecuted minority to get a chance to write the flagship X-Men book because it's way, way, way overdue.