Comments on: Black History Month ‘09 #15: Halftime http://www.4thletter.net/2009/02/black-history-month-09-15-halftime/ we like talking about comics, and hopefully you like reading us talking about comics. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:30:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Danger Bob http://www.4thletter.net/2009/02/black-history-month-09-15-halftime/comment-page-1/#comment-22282 Danger Bob Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:35:53 +0000 http://www.4thletter.net/?p=2520#comment-22282 A great example of the kind of the “e-racism” of the 90s is Captain America Heroes Reborn: http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/5/2561_20050926190709_large.jpg I remember back when I was a smart ass teenager that this story stretched too much of the imagination, and had a really dumb approach to racism. In it Captain America is sent on a mission with a team of SHIELD Agents hand picked by Nick Fury. Which of course was really a clever trap set by Red Skull who was disguised as Fury. I forget if Cap realizes before or after the trap was sprung but all the SHIELD Agents with him aren't white. Every agent was either Black, Jewish, or Latino. Yeah that's right, Red Skull's big plan was take Fury out, impersonate him, just to take down Captain America and a team of minority SHIELD agents. After reading it I thought, who would go through all that trouble? Is anyone really that rascist? It made me think, what was the rough draft like you know? If that was the script that got past the editors, what were the stinkers on the editing room floor? A great example of the kind of the “e-racism” of the 90s is Captain America Heroes Reborn:

http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/5/2561_20050926190709_large.jpg

I remember back when I was a smart ass teenager that this story stretched too much of the imagination, and had a really dumb approach to racism. In it Captain America is sent on a mission with a team of SHIELD Agents hand picked by Nick Fury. Which of course was really a clever trap set by Red Skull who was disguised as Fury.

I forget if Cap realizes before or after the trap was sprung but all the SHIELD Agents with him aren’t white. Every agent was either Black, Jewish, or Latino. Yeah that’s right, Red Skull’s big plan was take Fury out, impersonate him, just to take down Captain America and a team of minority SHIELD agents.

After reading it I thought, who would go through all that trouble? Is anyone really that rascist? It made me think, what was the rough draft like you know? If that was the script that got past the editors, what were the stinkers on the editing room floor?

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