It's so obvious what they're doing. Ghost Rider Scene (2007)
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This is one of the things that MIGHT have just been done with no thought but thanks to current day we see it through an ideological lens.
Give you two examples: John Stewart as Green Lantern and Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. If they were done NOW not previously, regardless of quality they'd be a lot of people saying that they were blackwashing a character.
This could've been resolved with having a young White or Latino kid be the one getting the 'innocent' line but even back then there was a known predilection for young Black men to have 'wrong time, wrong place' syndrome so this scene might've been made under that than agenda pushing.
Wdym? John Stewart was entirely them trying to make a black Green Lantern for the sake of a having a black Green Lantern.
I put him, Samuel Jackson inspired Nick Fury and characters like them in a seperate category to diversity inclusion for one reason:
They're actual CHARACTERS, they're a PERSON compared to just a palette change as if I asked for the difference between Hal Jordan and John Stewart, you could at least give me 10.
These current colour changes you probably couldn't give me anything other than the non white one was shit.