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Stan Lee explained this fairly well.

As the indefatigable 92-year-old superhero conjurer and Marvel Comics chairman emeritus sees it, fan backlash up until this point hasnt so much been spurred on by racism as much as unyielding fealty to the source material. Theyre outraged not because of any personal prejudice, Lee says. Theyre outraged because they hate to see any change made on a series and characters they had gotten familiar with. In Spider-Man, when they got a new actor, that bothered them, even though it was a white actor. I dont think it had to do with racial prejudice as much as they dont like things changed.