tired of the white hero

ever read any milestone books? if not, i'd snap up some of the books they did. it's a start in a different direction while still being cape comics. priests run on black panther was also great if you are looking for something more mainstream. i'd recommend avoiding hudlin's run though. a good place to find a outlook on life that's not american is slice of life manga's. too many to name there. also, if you saw steve rogers as just propaganda, you missed the point. steve started as a propaganda piece in the 40's, yes, but he's evolved well beyond that. he's the standard we all should strive to be. a good person.

Captain Planet transcends race.

Well DC is trying to diversify their comics with the relaunch they're doing, characters like Batwing, Mister Terrific, Static Shock are getting their own comics.

Well his name is Captain America , what do you expect?

As was stated before, Comic characters are products of their creators and their time period. Most of the true iconic characters were created in a time of segregation, and thus, superheroes were white. Of course, things are different now, but comic fans have grown up with these characters, and thus, do not want to see them changed. Thus, the problem is not that established white characters must be made white. What needs to be done is comic creators need to make new characters that are not white, or build up already created diverse characters to reach an iconic status. These so called "side characters" you called as such need to be allowed to grow by the comic reading and consuming audience, and not simply labeled as "side characters." Take Cyborg for instance. Cyborg began as a member of the Teen Titans in the 1980s, but now, he's a member of the Justice League, THE most recognized superhero group in the DC Universe. Sure you can still call Cyborg a "side character" but by doing that and ignoring the his growth and the effort that is being made to promote these diverse "side characters," you undermine that effort that is being made. The most iconic superheros are not going to suddenly become diverse, it's a long process, but one that is being made.

thats a poor example.he a GL not THE GL.also hes about as entertaining/interesting as root canal.

You're a racist. And the fact that you have to go out of your way in your post to say you aren't just makes it more obvious.

You want them to shoehorn a black person in the role of a superhero that isn't black just for the sake of doing so? That's reverse racism.

Source material is source material, they were white in the comics, they'll be white in the movies.

Black Panther is black, Blade is black (had 3 movies AND a tv show), Cyborg is black, Luke Cage is black, Steel is black, Static Shock is black (he had his own ing cartoon series).

I hate this ing argument so ing much. It's racist on YOUR part, but white movie producers are the racists for sticking to something that has a 50+ year basis to go on?

There are black superhero and comic properties, they will have their time too, until then, stop acting like it's being done intentionally to hold one culture back and make the other look better, that's ing ridiculous.

Final question, do you think Captain America would've deserved the BO numbers it got if Will Smith played him instead? Seems like that's the track you want to go down here.