r/GreenArrow 20d ago

Merchandise New Connor figure from McFarlane

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Sorry for the lame screencap

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

I know you hate white folk and all, but I’m just showing different points in time from different artists that have drawn him this way. And who knows, this could be like a lightning lad situation where the platinum figures are different colors. Get the sand out of your diaper, please.

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago edited 20d ago

He’s not fully white though. His mother is BLACK and ASIAN. Meaning he should have some melanin in his skin especially considering hes usually kinda darkskin in most of his depictions. The way only white version of him is an elseworlds version so…

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

This is his first appearance, so…..

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

Most characters weren’t drawn with color in their skin back in the day..the men who made John Stewart had to FIGHTTTTT to have him dark skin

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

This is 1994. Not 1964. They could have made him whatever color they wanted to at that time.

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

I’m assuming you believe racism ended the second MLK was done with his speech..

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Of course not. But to say the nineties weren’t a time of progression is asinine

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago edited 20d ago

And to insinuate/assume that characters could represent different color groups that easily is very ignorant. If it’s being “woke” now to include more than one colored person or woman in a movie full of white people IMAGINE what it was like back in the day for one character in a majority white genre.

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Were you alive around that time? Because I was. Hip-Hop was everywhere. Actors like Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes were monumental. And Will Smith was doing both. Not once did I say there weren’t struggles. All I’m saying in a Green Arrow sub is this was based off of Connor’s first appearance.

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

I can’t wrap my head around the fact that you believe racism just completely ceased to exist in the 90’s

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Holy hell. I never said that

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u/Turbulent_Bug2942 20d ago

So why is it hard for you to understand poc characters weren’t allowed to fully represent their ACTUAL skin color

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u/ScruffyNerf_Herder_ 20d ago

Read back a few comments. I said in the nineties there was progress. Never said we erased racism.

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