@AReclusiveGod@Pierre_Chanliau I don’t know if you black or not, but this convo is getting out of hand. No one is calling Hal a bigot, or actively hateful of black people. He’s a white hero created back in the 40, he has done ignorant/racist shit which is interesting to explore with a black partner. Jesus
@Wisthp1@AReclusiveGod I want you to think about this: The writer CHOSE to use words in the comic like “racism” “bigotry”, etc. Hal Jordan, whose perspective is that these things are not happening and John is just a hot-headed black guy, is proven wrong by the story. What u think the writer was saying?
@Wisthp1@AReclusiveGod The entire comic is centered around Hal not believing or understanding what John is saying about the racism his community is facing. The whole thing is a commentary on race and black people needing their own superhero. The writers made the story conflict for a reason
@Wisthp1@AReclusiveGod Because it doesn’t really matter. Hal hesitates because EVEN THOUGH he doesn’t think of himself as a racist, there are some implicit biases he did not know he had until he had to evaluate John as a gL
@AReclusiveGod@Pierre_Chanliau I don’t know if you black or not, but this convo is getting out of hand. No one is calling Hal a bigot, or actively hateful of black people. He’s a white hero created back in the 40, he has done ignorant/racist shit which is interesting to explore with a black partner. Jesus
@Chicken13iscuit@CBMCringe I own the fucking comic. The whole issue is Hal overlooking is biases. I didn’t say he was slinging the n-word, he’s a LITTLE racist
@1frm_sanantonio Her point is that the test is skewed against black Americans because we are more fearful in the US, especially in the 80s. The guardians dont really gaf but they see John as a good chance to try something new
@NobodyIsOurGuy Which is a pretty typical you hear when you’re black and grow up around otherblack kids, it’s not the lesson the episode is trying to teach you😭
@Magnum_CK@TokyoOnTheRocks This how I KNOW you arguing in bad faith cause the politician he did that to is the racist John is trying to expose. He’s literally mocking him for his prejudice, and you know that cause you read the fucking book
@yesboy44@Only_Grey She not wrong about the racism, she’s wrong about the Guardians. Theyre aliens, they don’t care that the test is unfair, they want John as an experiment to see if they can make a perfectly fine obedient green lantern by raising him from birth