Very difficult subject. Sometimes they over try to make a POC character a non stereotype and wind up making a mary sue overly perfect character and be dull.
Challenge yourself on why that's a problem, I get where you're coming from but there's plenty of white examples that fall into the Sue territory but nobody seems to mind. Batman and Spiderman? They have flaws but these flaws are superficial a best. Peter Parker is an intelligent white male with connections but he's still poor? C'mon dude. If white people could have hyper competent characters so can we, they just need the right teams behind them
Couldn't agree with you more my guy. ChillMonger sent me here. I'm late 30's, African blessed to have travelled and seen all sorts of culture and how diverse "blackness" keeping in mind black is a political term, and we're not black in Africa, we can't be polarised this way, we do have tribalism though. The way West Coast blacks and East Coast blacks in the States are so different, here in South Africa, travel 100km in any direction and you get so many diverse black cultures and I learned this in every African country I've been to thus far. Working in media (radio and as a designer) I'm engrossed in media, most of it from the West and yo, as far as "REPRESENTATION GOES" Western media "promoting" blacks and browns is TRASH!!! and this isn't an opinion. The only blacks we tend to get are criminals, relations of criminals, runaways, slaves, Carltons, all your black women have weaves and when they don't they're super strong and independent. DON'T ME WRONG the media in general is TRYING to justify bad behaviour especially for women with these recent Disney shows etc, pushing gender war etc so media is sucky in general but for "blacks"....nah man, let me speak arrogantly for Africans as a whole neh. Riri Williams is "Not Like Us"
Very difficult subject. Sometimes they over try to make a POC character a non stereotype and wind up making a mary sue overly perfect character and be dull.
Challenge yourself on why that's a problem, I get where you're coming from but there's plenty of white examples that fall into the Sue territory but nobody seems to mind.
Batman and Spiderman? They have flaws but these flaws are superficial a best. Peter Parker is an intelligent white male with connections but he's still poor? C'mon dude.
If white people could have hyper competent characters so can we, they just need the right teams behind them
Couldn't agree with you more my guy. ChillMonger sent me here. I'm late 30's, African blessed to have travelled and seen all sorts of culture and how diverse "blackness" keeping in mind black is a political term, and we're not black in Africa, we can't be polarised this way, we do have tribalism though. The way West Coast blacks and East Coast blacks in the States are so different, here in South Africa, travel 100km in any direction and you get so many diverse black cultures and I learned this in every African country I've been to thus far. Working in media (radio and as a designer) I'm engrossed in media, most of it from the West and yo, as far as "REPRESENTATION GOES" Western media "promoting" blacks and browns is TRASH!!! and this isn't an opinion. The only blacks we tend to get are criminals, relations of criminals, runaways, slaves, Carltons, all your black women have weaves and when they don't they're super strong and independent. DON'T ME WRONG the media in general is TRYING to justify bad behaviour especially for women with these recent Disney shows etc, pushing gender war etc so media is sucky in general but for "blacks"....nah man, let me speak arrogantly for Africans as a whole neh. Riri Williams is "Not Like Us"
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