Spawn was amazing! STOP FORGETTING SPAWN! Michael Jai White is one of my favorite Martial Arts actors! Dude is super nice too, met him on a flight and we chatted about comics and shit the whole time, was awesome.
I was in the middle of rant, so forgive me. I big fan of Jai was well, but he was done dirty on
Spawn. Plus, I prefer Keith David as Spawn, and the HBO series did the character and its mythos justice. Something the film never got right.
See this is I think the mentality that hurts the argument in my eyes. I get that a lot, I'm white therefore I have no right to complain. Oh these people aren't PoC's therefore the analogy doesn't apply.
I never said you did not have the right to complain.
What fucking difference does it make? Racism is racism period. I'm Germen/Jewish and my family fled Europe in the late 1930's or early 40's I can't remember the exact date. White people have been through shit too, and I hate that ya'll just wanna throw that shit out like we couldn't have possibly ever struggled just because we white. There are lots of other reasons that people may have been oppressed than just their skin color.
And it's gross how people just hand wave it like Black folks is the only folks able to claim suffering.
You are correct, but blacks have gotten screwed over a lot and still compard to certain other races. I'm not saying other did not suffer either, but there is a totem pole effect, and you can always expect black to be at the bottom. You have people that treat Indians and Asians with contempt, but will say at least you're not black! Brainwashing them in to thinking that as long as we're not dark-skinned, black, too dark, they'll accept us in to being "white" or one of them. It still happend today, and as of recently with COVID, shows full of shit and hypocritical that thinking is. There was a lot of Asian hate going on this year and last year, so that went out the window all of sudden, and they found themselves at the bottom with us.
I do thank you for acknowledging other types of racism and hate. My main problem though with X-Men is that creates this weird dissonance where it's about racism, yet most of the characters are not PoC nor do they go to deep in to the implications at times. Like I said before, this is more so a problem with the live action movies. Though the comics had this problem too, though there were attempts to corrects this. What does not help in X-Men films case is that First Class has this problem where only the colored characters die or work with the villains and later Magneto. You can't ignore something like that, and I am glad people of all types called out on that unfortunate implication.
My Step-father is black and a cop and I asked him how many times he has dealt with racism or being called a N**B, and he could only think of like 3 times in his entire life. There are many reasons why some people experience a lot of racism, and others of the same color skin get a lot of it. Could be locational, could be attitude, luck, all sorts of shit.
How lucky for him. Others aren't. I appreciate you for sharing, but many others got it worse than him depending on where they live in the states or other parts of the world.
Again obviously racism is still out there, but racism is not exclusive to PoC's.
Yet, the PoC usually get worse than those that are white or pass off as white.
I put my responses in BOLD in that Quote to just answer your questions. the answers aren't really important though.
I noticed.