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[redcoast]

I'm so glad Cracked.com alerted me to the existence of Connor Hawke, a comic book character who is supposed to be mixed race. His mom was half-black, half-Korean, and his dad is Green Lantern (white). So he looks like this:

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[melissa_maples]

Well hello, stranger.

[redcoast]

Hi! This is awkward, but you speak Turkish, right? Do you know what this means?

LAN MAL MAL GİFLER HAZIRLAMAYIN. KİM GAY SİZSİNİZ GAY. SUSUN LAN.

[melissa_maples]

Let me guess, this is a YouTube comment? This is one of presumably two idiots arguing about who's the bigger faggot. And this one is telling the other one not to make any more gifs. And to shut the fuck up. And "I'm not gay, you are." Fine literature you've stumbled across here.

I don't actually speak much Turkish, but I'm pretty good at reading.

[redcoast]

It's actually a comment from Tumblr, directed at me, so apparently I'm gay and shouldn't make anymore gifs. I thought it might be something like that.

I don't actually speak much Turkish, but I'm pretty good at reading.

I'm like that with Spanish.

[jim_smith]

I remember when they introduced this character in 1994. I must have seen him dozens of times over the last 20 years, and this is literally the first time I ever heard he was supposed to be mixed race. He always looked lily-white to me. The picture above is probably the brownest I have ever seen him.

[freezer]

That was a major problem with the character: No one could come up with a consensus on what he was supposed to look like so artists would draw him with features all over the place.

[redcoast]

Why didn't they just do some research on people with the same ethnic background as the character and then oh who am I kidding

"his dad is Green Lantern (white)"

[ext_1626784]

Which one is that... Hal Jordan? Guy Gardner? (There are probably other white Green Lanterns I'm forgetting)

Re: "his dad is Green Lantern (white)"

[jim_smith]

His dad is Green Arrow, Redcoast doesn't know nothin' about comic books.

[ani_bester]

Oh don't get me started.
My personal feelings are as soon as you decided Dick Grayson was going to be Romani,, an editorial mandate should have gone out to ALL the colorists about skin tone change.

But of course that did not happen.
Not to mention Damian. I do get that some mixed kids DO favor the white parent. So if Damian were the only case of this I'd not mind so much but case after case after case... that looks wrong.

[wrongly_amused]

Unless he has a very specific strand of Melanesian heritage, he has no reason to look that way. 9_9

I think it's called the "But Not Too Black!" trope. We can mention diversity, but if we show that we care enough to research it properly, that may alienate our young, white, male demographic!