>>111617712NotOP but the reason things have been getting increasing fucky is because of how the media panders to the worst aspects of communities they exploit for cashgrabs. In the 70-80's it was Blaxplotation, and now it's back full force along with LGBTrenders+.
Pic related and this link (
https://youtu.be/lGo8RRWHOUQ?t=485) shows the fallacy of thinking that self-image has to be skin deep in portrayal along with how negative that can be. If you look at a lot of characters, they start to lose nuance/become villains even to their own people when they get whittled down into being a racial allegory. Plus people begin to excuse horrible behavior on virtue of being a minority rather than calling them out on it.
Black Panther's last runs had him trying to cover up a Wakandan Noble pulling a Weinstein/raping women from a Dora-Miljae's tribe. The Dora killed the noble but both him and his mom covered up the rapes because the nobles needed to keep power/set an example to the Doras. However even though their rules state that rape was illegal and the Dora could have been exonerated, the cover up was easier and suffered less shame, something BP always chastises the non-Wakandans for doing.
The problem with that run was that no one called BP/The Nobles out on that except for the Villain of the story. Sure BP cried crocodile tears and yelled at everyone that he was their king but it doesn't excuse the cover-up at all.
Putting too much stock into seeing a minority is how we get Riri, Gabby's America, or Kamala Khan. People who by their actions make black people look like vapid attention whores and brownnosers rather than their own unique characters.
