It's actually a problem in comics too. Artists apparently don't know how to draw non caucasoid features (or are too lazy to actually change up their style for different characters), so they just draw a white person/the same features for everyone and color them whatever skin tone they want.
Because if you DO draw blacks accurately, you get cries of racism, and it's nothing new.
Ever wonder why (American) Dennis the Menace lived in an all-white world? Because the cartoonist tried to introduce a black friend for him once, and got cries of "racist". So he decided to never try to draw anything but whites again. Or so the story goes.
Any HINT of lips will get you lynched.
Oh, and it feeds into the fantastical "all humans are the same" worldview that is being sold. Because these baby-brains think that legal equality = biological equality somehow.
Unfortunately, the best source of the history and images of "Jackson" the memory-holed Dennis the Menace character were from a biased and editorialized Snopes article.
The author, Hank Ketcham, tried to introduce a new black character in 1970 to make social commentary, and of course, protests broke out overnight in multiple US cities over a comic strip.
The first comic strip is a little shocking looking at how "Jackson" is drawn, but seems pretty tame to have people ranting in the streets.
The second attempt OTOH, which Snopes claimed was also widely denounced, is much more tasteful and it's harder to imagine what anyone would have to complain about.
If you draw non caucasoid features, it comes across as caricatures. Because they literally look like walking stereotypes in real life, but we are in denial about it.
So we have to pretend they totally look normal and like everyone else, and they don't have these protruding jaws and mega lips a large amount of the time.
It's actually a problem in comics too. Artists apparently don't know how to draw non caucasoid features (or are too lazy to actually change up their style for different characters), so they just draw a white person/the same features for everyone and color them whatever skin tone they want.
Because if you DO draw blacks accurately, you get cries of racism, and it's nothing new.
Ever wonder why (American) Dennis the Menace lived in an all-white world? Because the cartoonist tried to introduce a black friend for him once, and got cries of "racist". So he decided to never try to draw anything but whites again. Or so the story goes.
Any HINT of lips will get you lynched.
Oh, and it feeds into the fantastical "all humans are the same" worldview that is being sold. Because these baby-brains think that legal equality = biological equality somehow.
Archived Snopes link
Unfortunately, the best source of the history and images of "Jackson" the memory-holed Dennis the Menace character were from a biased and editorialized Snopes article.
The author, Hank Ketcham, tried to introduce a new black character in 1970 to make social commentary, and of course, protests broke out overnight in multiple US cities over a comic strip.
The first comic strip is a little shocking looking at how "Jackson" is drawn, but seems pretty tame to have people ranting in the streets.
The second attempt OTOH, which Snopes claimed was also widely denounced, is much more tasteful and it's harder to imagine what anyone would have to complain about.
If you draw non caucasoid features, it comes across as caricatures. Because they literally look like walking stereotypes in real life, but we are in denial about it.
So we have to pretend they totally look normal and like everyone else, and they don't have these protruding jaws and mega lips a large amount of the time.