Nobody was complaining about race swaps, when they changed Baxter Stockman into a scraggly haired blonde nerdy white guy who transforms into a fly mutant for gimmick to sell toys or drastically Changing the turtles backstory making splinter and hamato yoshi one in the same being voiced by a white guy or james avery voicing a Japanese ninja and changing out the ninja aspect of tmnt to being Saturday morning superheroes because of parents complaining about violence and claiming another culture outside of eurocentric world view was uneducational ninjas and samurai were more or less the same calibur of violence as the cowboys shooting the plains indian raids westerns or the medieval knight in shining armor sword and sorcery of the day.
race swapping a character and taking liberties with the source material isn't racist let alone to white people. thats a complete reach, there's endless amount of eurocentric representation in media in motion pictures video games tv books comics history etc Hollywood has been taking liberties with characters for centuries, in movies about real life figures and fictional characters.
but in the case of comic book or fictional media Black April or this arguement of Ginger erasure recasted as black is nothing compared to the liberties Hollywood has made with the source material that has something to do with characters of color.
A Ginger child, can look up to Blonde haired and Brunette haired white characters or non fictional people in media for positive and negative representation, because "they're all white people!" doesnt really matter if one little measly side red haired character is changed to a black person because you still have the classic representation of the "original character" to go back to such examples;
- Wally West Flash in the dc comics you have original recipe Wally to the titans and justice league that replaced Barry Allen for decades as the definitive Flash in pop culture and you have the new 52 black Wally and you got Jay Garrick even tho hes the original and he's not well known by most and flash gets confused with Flash Gordon by the main consensus of boomers.
Ginger Barbara Gordon batgirl /oracle is still there in mainstream cartoons comics video games even tho the movies made her Blonde White Woman with Alicia Silverstone and made her a pennyworth, but originally Barbara wasn't even Jim Gordons daughter she was his niece and the original Batgirl Mary Elizabeth Kane aka flame bird whos a blonde chick created to prove Batman and Robin weren't a pedophilic homosexual couple as accused by skeptical fredrick werthem but created an incest situation with bruces cousin the Batwoman Kate kane and Barbara is an invention of adam west batman tv show Yvonne Craig was a brunette woman in a red haired wig. nobody cares for Jimmy Olsen the sidekick of Clark Kent, you still have ginger characters such as Barry Allen, Walter kovack Rorschach from watch men, Jean Grey Phoenix / marvel girl, hope summers, rachel summers, or Matt Murdock Daredevil this flismy argument of "ginger erasure" it's something grown men in the alt right is complaining about not ginger white children who could care less and would pick up a character of color before a white character at times.
they race swapped Bane from the batman franchise nobody complained about such superficial things at that, who we never gotten a knight fall adaptation in animated nor live action form. Bane is an intelligent latino man in a luchador gimp motorcycle fetish costume that would make a pride parade homosexual man blush and a super soilder serum steroid buff brawler that tires out bruce breaking loose all arkham inmates, studies batman routine, follows him back to the cave and cripples both killer croc and batman also tosses his broken body down from a 30 story building to the streets of Gotham for all to see like that time the predator did the same thing.
the movies either make him a white guy Kevin Nash a caricature of a dumb henchmen brute to uma thurmans poison ivy and arnold scwartznegger Mr. freeze with no speaking lines other than repeating instructions only put there for fan service. or we get Christopher Nolan's crappy grounded in realism version -(because the Warner bros studio is so embarrassed by comic book elements ashamed of the legacy of jole Schumacher in the era of leather motor cycle fetish and trenchcoats copying grant morrision mark millars comics , the matrix and blade, they made him and the joker a stand in for things that was going on during the bush and Obama presidency such as terrorists and columbine mass shooters to be inspired by like James Holmes Adam landsa or a Nicholas Cruz*) they make him Welsh Weeb 1990s Shredder knock off in a respirator mask and removes the aspect of venom and Santa prisca from his origin making him a league of shadows member and combined with the mutant leader from dark knight returns and he's a henchmen for a secret villainess Talia al ghul.
Talia Al Ghul was race swapped from an Arabian woman to a white woman same with Ras Al Ghul the studio took liberties with one of Bruce's teachers like Ducard and combined him with Ras al ghul to refrain from evoking taliban or jihadist in the war on terror they made them into frank dux esque kumate ninjas which is also why when Hollywood adapts a franchise like tmnt or mortal kombat they're ashamed of letting ninjas exist in the modern age in these grounded in realism movies. They made him run a secret band of ninjas that lived in a tiebetan mountain side to compact Bruce's journey around the world to one spot to learn how to become a vigilante.
Cat woman has been race swapped in the 1960s adam west show played by a black cherokee woman Ertha Kitt and nobody cared. same with Haley Berry version because it wasn't connected to the 89 universe even though it originally was a passing of the torch of Michelle phifer catwoman to haley berry's version and removed from batman returns because they failed to set up a shared DC COMICS CINEMATIC UNIVERSE in the 90s.
1997 Spawn movie and animated series race swapped Angela for an asian arch angel love intrest for spawn in season 3 cliff hanger finale, and changed Terry Fitzgerald from a black guy to a white guy and made Siam biracial, nobody was crying a " great replacement theory" then and the studio made the decision cause they said it wasn't enough white protagonist in the story of spawn even though they got (sam and twitch who are cameos in the film and are main characters in the toon while spawn sits in the background for most the cartoon and observes crimes that happens to happen in rat city, Cogliostro whos spawns mentor and gets a set of armor and chainmale and helps spawn fight clown violator in the finale in the movie and is merlin in the cartoon and a previous spawn, Angela the hell spawn slayer arch angel whos was almost his love intrest and enemy who was a cameo in both the cartoon and movie, hoodini, the angel bootsy, spawns hobo friends, the Christian God, jim downing who took over al simmonsmantel and is his first disguise, and the second redeemer anti spawn. Nobody complained about comic book accuracy or race with that cult classic shitty film.
You had video game movies miscasting the race of characters such as the mario brothers Mario himself played by a british actor and John leguizamo playing an italian Luigi Mario when hes Venezuelan, mortal kombat of being guilty of race swapping changing characters for the better or worst kanos race from a Japanese American guy to a British guy who fans though was speaking in an Aussie accent, originally wanting to cast highlander mentor ramirez actor Sean Connery as the thunder god Raiden a Japanese oni to conner mccloud lead actor in highlander Christopher lambert, James Remar, Ray Park pre Darth maul, and Jeffery meeks talisa soto as Kitana whos supposed to be asian, almost casting Brandon Lee a biracial whaisan if he didn't die on the set of the crow also he played the crow a white guy, to play liu kang you got a French guy play sub zero françois petit or J. perry and making both scorpion and sub zero henchmen of shang stung and putting a Chinese Buddhist monestery in Thailand and added an o.c. character with art lean rather than have Jax be integrigral to the film. Nobody was complaining about taking liberties with characters race.
Since the inception of the motion picture Hollywood has race swapped characters such as have white people make up a phoney satirical caricature propaganda called a minstrel black face or reel indian red face chinese exclusion chi pow war time axis power yellow face to joke and make fun of racial groups with stereotypes or to play roles that were meant for people of color or takes place where most likely the characters would be of color to perpetuate and promote "white idolatry" as written in screenland magazine movies in Malaysia aritcle.
Jewish executives and The studio back in the day would make all types of excuses not to put money towards funding positivity of black representation in the media. It took Black Hollywood to make their own stuff during white flight and the bankruptcy of Hollywood till the invention of the summer blockbuster, they put their money together to put out films that we wanted to see with messages and positive images and duragatory things about ghetto life or sticking it to the man like all these blaxploitation films, malcolm x, or these batman superman knock offs with abar the black superman blank man meteor man blacula etc. the studio went with the safe non threatening black person like a will smith or the child like, the zesty, sassy, androgynous sus black person they assumed was homosexual or wierd like little Richard, Michael Jackson, or Prince cause white male viewers assumed senstive blacks or light skin black men were non threatening. the studio would say " there's not enough white representation in this film and too many strong black protagonist " and deliberately sabotage the film from becoming a franchise. Steel who was popular in the 90s it was doomed because of jole Schumacher and shaq, the year of spawn was flopped his movies and tv cartoon was canceled infavor for the sopranos six feet under sex and the city etc, keeping black panther in development hell for years for white audiences hatred for afrocentricity because they didn't want to show a technologically advanced africa or tchalla beating up the avengers or fantastic four and killing ulysses klaw, nor did they want Blade to succeed as it did and Disney flopped that star wars sequel series hard when it could've done fine with Finn as the main character if it wasn't for the white supremacist memes and crying great replacement theory propaganda over a romance between John boyega being a kyle katarn esque character being in a relationship with daisy riddley Rey that never happened and pandering to chinese markets anti black racism but they went ahead and got an average looking bbw chinese actress to play rose Tico as a replacement love intrest that pissed off the chinese and didn't really do anything with their asian characters in rogue one or the raid redemption actors.
Hollywood is in the buisness of making money and mind control, it cares nothing about accuracy or inclusive representation cause if so more projects would get green lit that gives black people or other audience better entertainment.
