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cjsdowg posted...

Also another bone to pick with likening X-men to African Americans. They hardly are ever any African Americans on the fucking team. Look at this from the next big book. Not one African American on this cover. There are more Lizards than African Americans. Note there are Black people in form of Storm and Gateway. But I'm speaking of African Americans. 700 issues of X men and we get nothing. Not even fucking Bishop on the cover who seems to have just vanished.

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It's called demographics. Lee knew the vast majority of comic readers where white.

Making them black would have been a gamble back then. It may have drawn in new readers but black people where already accustomed to having to deal with most fictional characters being white so it was also likely they generally wherent interested in comics.

Also maybe the point was to subtly show white people discrimination cause let's face it had they been black white people back then definitely wouldn't have been as interested

Even today I'm betting most comic readers are white men. It's a dying industry propped up by stuff like movies and TV shows. So if they ever do decide to make new characters to represent minorities I hope they do a movie or TV show first cause testing the waters by making a comic would probably end bad.