User blog comment:Blinkn/Correcting an Oversight/@comment-4652104-20120116121348

I get the feeling, that racial diversity is becoming something of an obsession. I agree that minority characters should not be marginalised and that it's cool to have significant character who are black, gay or from other minorities. I'd even suggest that it would be nice to address these issues directly. There is an example of this in recent Avengers Academy where White Tiger challanges Rptil for not representing the hispanic minority. It may be interesting to put this issue in X-men - "This is Texas ma boy, we don't mind ye bein' a mutant, is you bein' a goddamn [insert derogative for afro-american here] is what we can't abide" (apologies to all Texans for using your state as an example). But since there are quite a few significant minority characters, black (Panther, Storm, War Machine), gay (Young Avengers), as well as inter-racial relationships (see the Jones-Cage marriage) etc. etc. I don't see a point in making this an issue. It's not like the reresentation in comic books is wildly different from reality. As someone mentioned - the majority of the American population is white. It is also true that more people date within their ethnic group. Why would superheroes be any different? This is not a comic book about minority issues, this is a comic book about super-people. So since it does not entirely ignore the minority thing, that's cool and there is nothing to complain about. Some characters are WASP cause they were created in the 60-s and though their lack of racial diversity is lamentable, I think that changing them now would be silly. As for Fury, Heimdall etc. Fury - In 616 Fury was a colonel in the US Army during WWII - they did not have high ranking black officers back then, did they? So he has to be white for historical reasons. In other realities he may be any color. I actually like Samuel L. Jackson as Fury. Heimdall - oh come on, a black Norse god? I know that gods can look any way they like, but they are anthropomorphic, they should look like the people who worshiped them. Than again, I like the actor's presentation, so I'm not going to push the point any further.