X-Color : a Kaleidoscope of Mutants

This was a post I saw while looking through X-men 3: final Conflict’s IMDb message board.

“before you start bashing me i wanted to say that i think as a black comuniyu we deserve to see more black actors and super heroes that we can relate with and i really didnt like that all the characters in this movie were just white we got only storm and she had a very little rol how do you think? if a black kid will sit down and watch this movie will he have someone to relate with? i think major characters like cyclops or wolverine should be played by black actors that way we can relate with more heroes and characters in x men and we got a lot of good black actors that can play big roles in x men”

(Before my response, what the deal with people speaking for a community like they have been chosen spokesperson? now on to the rAnt)

I find that to be preposterous. Your assumption, pretty much states that because the color of someones skin is different it will make it easier to relate to them… color instead of background. They are freakin mutants with powers, them having black skin will not make you relate to them more…well it should not. Also the percentages fit…what percent of the population in America is of African descent? Being a mutant is supposedly a random thing so if it randomly affects the population in America it will randomly affect less afro Americans. So you feel you relate more to storm, whose character was raised in the streets of Cairo as a street urchin and thief, then lived in the countryside of Kenya as an African princess of a tribe?! You relate to her more than you relate to any of the other characters, whose childhoods did not involve working for a creature made entirely of psionic energy?! The mutants seem to be fighting the perceptions of people who think the simple fact that they are a mutant, especially the ones with an unusual appearance, makes them dangerous or inferior. Basically basing their judgments of people on their physical appearance and not qualities or their personality, thoughts and things that truly make them them. Oh wait that sounds awfully familiar, has that ever happened? People judging others by their appearances?

Remember when Mystique changes back into a human. Magneto leaves her. she was the same exact person but her appearance changed.(in her case the change also went into what she was actually able to do for herself and his cause). In your post, you suggest they should simply change the way the character talks and looks and all of a sudden, yay time to relate. I do not mean to insult you and i hope it did not come off as an insult it just infuriates me how people divide themselves, and use weak reasons to differentiate themselves from one another.

Now for links and such relating to the post.

I found this rather hilarious, Nice faccia’s

Now I know some may think i was rough on the guy that wrote his ridiculous comment, some may even agree with him. Taking that into account, this is a blog not only for me but for all of you hopefully dedicated readers, so i aim to please. I edited some pictures, because …well because. Relate away…