I guess I'm referring to a lead character level. If you want to make a side character black....although I kinda still disagree with it, I'm not going to kick up as big a fuss for that. Its more about the total IP that comes with that character.
Is there more than one way to skin a cat? Sure, of course, but follow what I'm saying. The diversity we want is to promote original black characters, heroes with their own unique and original stories, their own cast of supporting characters and villains that were expressly created for a black-centered property. Why would you reskin an existing popular white character into a black one when you have perfectly good black characters just hanging around that all need that same attention? (You and I both know the answer to that....cue Mr Krabs..."Money!!") By not promoting and investing in this one character, you're not just shortchanging one character, you're shortchanging that entire black IP and all that comes with it.
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I follow your argument, but you're making it and either or proposition , when it isn't. Making a Black Superman doesn't short change the rest of their Black IP characters. It means that they need to exploit more their Black characters and be open to casting POC as leads or supporting characters in properties which lack minorities , which are plentiful.
"Reskinning" a character is unrelated to exploiting perfectly good Black characters. The two aren't connected unless the idea is Black actors should only play Black characters . It doesn't matter if there are other perfectly good Black characters if the goal is to tell a Black Superman story.
It only matters if the argument is that a Black actor shouldn't play Superman because there are other perfectly good Black characters .
If that were the standard , then minorities would only be relegated to playing
only original minority characters, and there would be no reason that wouldn't apply to only lead characters.
Further, that pretty much limits the amount of roles that Black or other minority actors and actresses would get to play in a given cbm, especially if most if not all of the leads and supporting characters are White, which is the case with alot of cbm and fictional characters.
Under that principle, if a studio decided to make a spat of cbm which were based off of properties with only white lead, and supporting characters, minority actors would just be "outta luck" since Hollywood would have to only cast actors who fit the traditionally comics version.
So the idea that " just promote the existing Black or minorities IPs, and don't touch the White ones" isn't a solution to Hollywood's diversity problem either. All it does is present another problem.
Yeah, you would be promoting exclusively minority characters, but they would become further a minority since they would only be limited to those specific films, and they would only ever appear in major cbm if those comics counterparts featured minorities. It doesn't work.
That's one of the reasons why Disney, The MCU, and the Arrowverse have started to do both, and really , I've yet to really see a strong argument why doing both a bad.
I'm Black, and I know perfectly well Hollywood's skittishness when it comes to exploiting Black characters in general let alone in cbms.
But Hollywood's lack of exploitation of other original Black characters and there other failings does not then mean therefore, that promoting diversity( or just telling a Black Superman story because the story is good,) shouldn't happen .
