Batgirl movie's Barbara Gordon has been cast
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So does that mean they're going to make Commissioner Gordon (or his wife) black?
In The Batman with Robert Pattinson (which is a different continuity), Commissioner Gordon will be black. Inching closer and closer to the core characters they really want. For Superman I would expect Lois to be next, they already got Jimmy Olsen and Lex Luthor. Within the decade we will have a swapped Batman or Superman, with normies finally learning about multiverses they'll have all the excuse they need.
And Perry White in Man of Steel played by Lawrence Fishburne.
Lex Luthor has been 'black' since the 90's, and unless there's a specific change to make the character more sympathetic, I don't really consider blackwashing villains to be 'woke'. Black Lex Luthor is less offensive to me than Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal.
I don't know that his race/ethnic heritage was ever specified. He was always some ambiguous brown in that, (hence why I said 'black' in quotes), but I've seen people refer to that version of Luthor as black.