when this whole thing started the media outlets weren't calling Yasuke "a black samurai" they were actually calling Yasuke "the first black samurai" as if they were planning on pushing MORE black samurai in the future. Too bad for them, they couldn't get the general public to even accept one black samurai.
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It's a general Buzzfeed marketing obsession with 'First ever <insert DEI category>' of left-liberal progressives. They always want to have the feeling that they're 'pioneering' something. NASA, for example, wanted to explicitly have a mission with the first woman and 'person of color' to explore the moon.
They also tried this spiel with Star Trek: Disco. Ignoring both Janeway and Sisko, rofl. It's a form of historical falsification in order to score virtue points.