“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing a white Messiah is the weight of the culture. The Avengers becoming black-ops agents is the weight of the culture…If a comic book can get us into World War II, can one get us out of Afghanistan? When can a hero be someone without a mask, who ends a war? Why is a nation with a black leader and a future white minority dreaming of white heroes who save the world, and their white god allies? When do we get a hero who does not need superpowers? And what if he didn’t need to go outside the law? What if our dream was that the law worked, and then it came true?”
— Author Alexander Chee has an essay at The Morning News on how the racially diverse comic books of his past are now mostly filled with white characters. (via)
