Originally Posted by
Güicho
...Kyle Rayner as the name suggests, was created as Irish American character from the get go, the name screams it and the character through his mom only ever identified with that name. Thats what he knew.
The years later (almost a decade into his run) retcon, that his father was named Vasquez, which has completely been ignored by most everyone since, and has developed pretty meaningless to the character himself, which is what matters. A character who never identified in any way as hispanic/Latino.
EDIT: -THIS QUOTE IS FROM PRE-OMEGA-MAN
Unless you have some image or dialogue quote where he does. I would LOVE to see it, because I would in fact love to see this character actually identify as such. Otherwise it's meaningless.
And this is the point you completely missed by your post. You can be hispanic/latino and white.
One does not negate the other.
You say Kyle is Hispanic not white!
WTh does that even mean?
Hispanic/Latino is not a particular race / skin color, but mostly a cultural/ethnic designation, reflected in name, language, upbringing, culture, identity, etc...
So it doesn't mater that he's more white, black, native american, etc. what matters is what the character identifies as.
And the character never took the name Vasquez, maybe if he'd taken (added) the name, but why would he, he's never shown to identified as that. He didn't grow up speaking spanish, or ever shown to learn it, he was never shown to connect culturally in any way.
So what to you makes him hispanic/latino.
I'm more interested about what the characters are shown to say about themselves, how they self identify.
Not the until now still meaningless wiki entry everyone loves to trot out.
If there is anything else, I'd love to see it.
The worst thing is if you are using his skin color as your "proof", is laughable.