The cast of "Arrow" looks like a miniature United Nations: Asian actors play complex characters and love interests; the show's villain is played by a Latino actor; black and biracial characters are common; and two interracial relationships are central to the show.
A TV show that's trying to say something about America should look like America, says "Arrow" creator Marc Guggenheim.
The debate over a superhero's color may seem silly at first. Why should it matter if the Human Torch is black, brown or white -- he's a torch, big deal. But sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories do more than give people thrills. They can drive social change or slow its progress, some say.
"Will & Grace" and "Ellen," for example, were credited with helping ease acceptance of gays and lesbians by using comedy to normalize a group of people deemed different.
Similarly, sci-fi, fantasy and horror shows teach children about tolerance without being preachy because their young audiences are wrapped up in the stories, says Michael D. Baran, a cultural anthropologist who studies how youth learn about race.
"They're not going to get messages that a kid's worth is dependent on how they look," Baran says. "One of the things these shows don't do is come out and say 'everyone is equal.' As soon as kids feel like they're being taught something, they're wary about it."
When shows tell stories where marginalized groups are excluded from the stories a nation tells about itself, children get another message, says Hunt, director of UCLA's Bunche Center.
"At some point you start to normalize the notion that only white men can be the hero and only white men can be in charge," Hunt says.
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That is in-your-face racist, anti-White propaganda. The enemy is openly using their Zionist-plutocratic media to indoctrinate Whites into accepting their own genocide.
But for the Zionists in Israel? Here:
Lieberman proposed the creation of a global network of Jewish schools with a
superior standard, and he committed the Israeli government to budget $365
million a year in matching funds for the project.
He also is looking forward to massive aliyah “The creation of an
international network of Jewish schools is only the first part of my vision,”
Lieberman declared. “In addition, my goal is to bring an additional 3.5 million
Jews from the Diaspora in the next ten years so that the Jewish population in
Israel will exceed 10 million.”
Jews are undoubtedly a major influence in American life, but the number of
Jews who are Jewish “in name only” spells a dismal future for the Diaspora.
One of the most self-serving ways to deny the future is to accept the
definition of a Jew as anyone who considers himself Jewish. That kind of
identity is temporary, at best.
Jewish institutions and organizations maybe boasting larger numbers, but the
meaning of Jewish is becoming emptier.
\What Lieberman essentially told the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem Tuesday was,
“Wake up. It’s later than you think.”
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