I let it slide because Jeffrey Wright is a decent actor.
There's your mistake. Christian Bale is a good actor, but would I watch him play Willy Wonka? No, because he's wrong for the part.
Jim Gordon is White (as opposed to Jimeroquous Guardman). Everything about his character sceams White. But, in the way fish don't see water, we all see him as "normal", not White, so they get away with acting as though he's some kind of generic character whom anyone can play equally realistically.
This is what the whole point of raceswapping is: "If anyone can play White characters, Whiteness isn't a thing". That's so why they tend to suck; even though White characters are effectively the default, nons don't make sense for the role.
Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for Black Man-at-Arms, or Jim Gordon, or Nick Fury except Black identitarians trying to make us think that they're just like us (right up until we're the minority, then they "assert their culture").
One solution to this problem, of course, is to make new characters who are Black.
Nick Fury was changed by the comic writers in 1999 before the MCU was a twinkle in anyone's eye because they wanted him to look like Samuel L. Jackson, but yeah
Yeah, and I would argue that the late 90s was when comics started the turn. Iirc, Civil War was right around there (surveillance state good, limit people based on what others do).
There's your mistake. Christian Bale is a good actor, but would I watch him play Willy Wonka? No, because he's wrong for the part.
Jim Gordon is White (as opposed to Jimeroquous Guardman). Everything about his character sceams White. But, in the way fish don't see water, we all see him as "normal", not White, so they get away with acting as though he's some kind of generic character whom anyone can play equally realistically.
This is what the whole point of raceswapping is: "If anyone can play White characters, Whiteness isn't a thing". That's so why they tend to suck; even though White characters are effectively the default, nons don't make sense for the role.
Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for Black Man-at-Arms, or Jim Gordon, or Nick Fury except Black identitarians trying to make us think that they're just like us (right up until we're the minority, then they "assert their culture").
One solution to this problem, of course, is to make new characters who are Black.
Nick Fury was changed by the comic writers in 1999 before the MCU was a twinkle in anyone's eye because they wanted him to look like Samuel L. Jackson, but yeah
Yeah, and I would argue that the late 90s was when comics started the turn. Iirc, Civil War was right around there (surveillance state good, limit people based on what others do).
There's your mistake. Don't capitalize "black".