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Anonymous /co/149429029#149429286
7/17/2025, 7:52:02 AM
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I'm not usually the MUH RACE MIXING AIIEEE BMWF AIEEEE type, but I really didn't like Jimmy being black in MAWS, nor did I like Kara's characterization or the decision to pair them together...mainly because the decision to make Jimmy black comes across as racist

>black characters in the 70s are depicted as macho and manly and aggressive
>people get uncomfortable and starting in the 80s, black characters are made to be more non-threatening
>the 90s then rebels against this and has more aggressive black characters
>only for the 2000s and current era to snap back hard to non-threatening black characters in the vein of Urkel

It's why so many cartoon characters that are young and black in the 2000s and onwards are almost always

>nerdy and eccentric
>effeminate or flamboyant
>sometimes outright gay (or has gay dads)
>passive
>boyish (immature)
>can't get a girlfriend, or a hopeless and harmless romantic: if they do get one, it's toothless and fluffy

I don't like Jimmy being black because Jimmy is meant to be Superman's best pal and has more in common with the child adventurer archetype that was overwritten by the hero sidekick archetype (it's why Rick Jones and Harry Vincent don't really exist anymore, and why Jimmy got the short end of the stick in adaptations or was put out of focus for such a long time in the comics). Jimmy is figuratively Superman's "son" and is a surrogate for the young boys out there.

So when you make Jimmy black, it's not only perpetuating the "black people can't be cool" crap, but it also infantilizes a black Jimmy, especially when he's right next to the Man of Steel (who ALSO gets hit with the emasculation stick and the "no emotional maturity" stick but to a different degree) and female characters like Kara and Lois who get to show more aggressiveness.