In recent years, we have seen a big boost to remake Selina as a black woman. It started in the Harley Quinn cartoon, then the Batman movie, now even the comic solo is giving her more African American features. Of course, Catwoman is a renown thief , who enjoys the finer things thanks to her loot. Meanwhile, a popular stereotyping of black people, by the KKK and such, is that they enjoy stealing and looting people for their own riches.
As such, making Selina a black girl could be reinforcing the stereotype in people's mind. Unfortunately, many incel Q-anon types read and worship Batman. So, being exposing to such stereotyping could be problematic to racial relation. Especially now, as Selina features are getting more African American in her solo, she is cheating on her lawfully wedded husband, Bruce Wayne, with another sketchy character. A black woman as a thieving, cheating girl is not a good look.
But maybe, DC does not care at all. Discovery is buying WB, DC parent company. Discovery big boss is a big MAGA type guy, and he is aggressively revamping CNN to be more like Fox News. So, I guess enabling such negative stereotyping of black people is a huge win in the subliminal messaging department
What do you think?