“Hal Harris - let's start with your basic question: "What would Batman do to Eric Garner?" You already know the answer. And the question is a strawman about a fictional character, designed to divide and spread hate.”
1. Call me Mr. Harris.
2. To prevent the strawman assertion you are making, I provided deep lived experience and evidence from Black personhood—the Twitter feed and memes, the treatment of Ray Fisher on the Justice League set and the tabling of Ave Duvernay’s New Gods movie, and the historical context in which Batman arose and how anti-Black that context was. You don’t address none of it.
3. “Spread hate?” You are white, aren’t you? That phrase is stock for white people who can’t talk about race with knowledge or humility.
“The very same disgust over the broken justice system in USA was the reason for the inspiration of fictional characters in the 1920s and 1930s.”
While it is true that crime that crossed state lines fueled the creation of the FBI in the 1920’s and 1930’s, such a lens also excluded Blackness. I make that argument clearly when I examine the context in which the Batman was created. As a consequence, you cannot examine Bruce Wayne without examining the absence of Blackness. Such ignoring of Blackness is a deliberate behavior of white supremacy.
“But the frustration behind the creation of such fictional characters, whether they are Zorro, Green Hornet, the Shadow, or the Batman, all come from the same place - a desire for equality and equity in justice.”
I argue differently. The creation of such characters, while responding to injustice, is to place them above the law. If we are also getting into the anti-Blackness of the Golden Age of Comics and it’s preceding age, one has to deal with the paternalistic, anti-Blackness nature of the Phantom, or the presence of Ebony White in the Spirit comics.
“You ignore the fictional references to such character fighting the KKK, and other racial supremacist groups. You ignore comics where such fictional characters were written to discourage our youth from racism, bigotry, hate.”
It is a very white argument to focus on white supremacy being represented by the KKK and “other racial supremacy groups” (I assume the Black Panthers or the Nation of Islam would fall into that fold?). White people often feel racism is a immutable personal defect versus the correct, Black definition—a system with traps, detours, and albatrosses designed to draw wealth and mana from Black personhood to white people who don’t deserve it. Your view of white supremacy and what I write about is deeply immature.
“But other genre of fiction should not be punished for being written in the time and reality that their writers exist in.”
It should. As the writer L.A Justice wrote recently in a piece, forgiveness in the Biblical sense cannot happen without reparation and reconciliation. If white people see Blackness as an immutable character trait that marks my people for servitude, exploitation, and demonization, then they are wrong; as a consequence there must be material recompense for how they have used their lies to guide nearly 150 years of their social policy and cultural development as a balm to facilitate healing. To say that we should consider fiction a product of their time is to deny a historical truth. Slavery was a crime. Discrimination on the basis of race is morally wrong. White people too quickly forgive their ancestors for their crimes while also stating, in the same context of examining the past, that there was good in slavery and that Black people, living in cages constructed by segregation and redlining, use their freedom destructively.
I suggest you change your name, bruh. Based off what you posted, you are not down for true equality.