>>101122140>McDuffie is the one who started the "your color is the most important thing about you" movement in the comics industry that ultimately lead to where we are today with Tanehessi Coates and Darryl AyyoHis intentions may have been good when he started the identity politics movement in creators circles and media in the 90s; he wanted to let black fans know that one of them was being represented in the creative field. But it quickly went out of control, where color and the value of tokenism outpaced the actual merit that was supposed to accompany those multiethnic viewpoints. McDuffie was "I am a creator and also black". The modern day guys like Coates are "I am black and also a creator".
If McDuffie had lived, I dunno how he'd feel about the monster he created; if he'd be sickened by it or if he'd have gone all in and joined the identity politics parade. Most of his interviews and the correspondence that's been released (like
>>101122352 ) kinda paints a picture of a person who was very disenfranchised, quick to anger and carried a massive chip on his shoulder regarding white people and the oppression of African Americans.
