Hello you nerds and a special hello to the sassy white-boy nerds that are low-key racists out there. I’ve read your hateful articles, I know why you don’t want a black teen playing your nerdy white idol but here’s the thing, your white pretty boys have had a good run and they’ve sucked. You’ve had Toby Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and now Tom Holland and they’ve all been… disappointing. Nothing hateful to the actors but their Spiderman portrayals have all been lacking… Do I really have to remind you of Spiderman 3 with Toby Maguire? Yes, I went there.
Even Andrew Garfield’s Spiderman was good but not comic book worthy and now Tom Holland’s Spiderman is rather lackluster and flat. The kid is cute but I’m bored of white pretty boys. “But Peter Parker is WHITE” you cry, “But changing his race is black washing”, “There’s a thing as too PC”… I hear you. I’ll try to ignore your blatant racism but here’s the thing, there is already a black-latino Spiderman and he’s amazing.
Miles Morales, a fourteen-year-old bi-racial teen who my five-year-old black-latino brother adores. See, a loophole to your racist argument. Peter parker can stay a white pretty boy idol and Spiderman can be black. Miles Morales took Peter Parker’s place after he died in Ultimate Fallout Issue #4. He has the same powers as Peter Parker, a similar nerdy whit, and a similar story of guilt propelling him into the super hero business.
I didn’t even know Miles Morales existed so I don’t blame you if you didn’t either. It was actually my brother’s excitement about the “black and red spidey, the black one” that made go searching for this character. I originally thought he was talking about Venom and kept correcting him to which he obviously was getting annoyed at. Apparently Disney added Miles Morales to their XD Spiderman animated series and the show is still doing great and the world didn’t explode in fact, I’d argue that it’s become a better place.
My brother isn’t a social butterfly, he can be a little nerdy and awkward which I think all five-year olds can be but at my partner’s graduation he went up to a little black boy and started a conversation about Spiderman. My brother asked the kid who his favorite Spiderman was and the kid told him “the black and red one” they both lit up and started playing make-believe. The interaction was so pure and filled me with joy and sure they could have bonded over Peter Parker but they didn’t. They bonded over the fact that there was a super hero that looked like them and that they could see themselves being.
Movies are influenced by current culture and demands. There is a demand for a black Spiderman. Miles Morales is a gold mine for a producer with balls enough to back it. Also, in today’s climate where black male teens are so extremely demonized in our society, it’s imperative that attitudes start to be changed and comics have a long history of being used for political agendas (think Captain America). So there is a responsibility for the comic industry to use their powers to uplift their fans.
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