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r3x29yz4a said:
I think the problem is that, for the most part, there's no real middle ground with black characters. They're either "white" or "ghetto."
The closest any mainstream comic has come to making a good black character who was realistic was Steel. But then again, they had him living in the poor part of town fighting gangs.



How exactly would you dictate a turn base on when black characters should be atypical like Ice Cube or sound atypically white like Denzel Washington?

Personally, I think Jon Stewart's character doesn't try too hard to be atypical whitey or even shy away from the brother-type. I mean, considering the guy's been in Nam, his views of brotherhood would prolly standardize itself based on camrardarie alone and not the fact that he hung out with his family under the gun barrel of racial-profiling--But again, that's atypical black American.


You know, on a side note: If ghettos and all they encumber (including it's stick together philosophy) didn't exist, nor the poverty and racial seperation, I'd reckon that most people in the United States would sound "white". I mean, I'm not precisely sure if black guys have naturally deep voices, but I do know that some really high up well-bred African Americans don't maintain the usual deep-voice or a bit of a slur to their speech, both of which have a bit of menace to em'.

Anyway, I'm not racist.