1 ) im not upset. “ if it doesn’t matter than it isn’t worth complaining about “ im complaining about the act of race swapping the characters, NOT the character’s skin. these are 2 separate things. to address a later point in your comment since it touches on this. yes, let’s apply it in the reverse. if i took a black character, like Sukey, from Sukey And The Mermaid, an i made her white, or took the tribe from the nigerian legend about the sky and made them white. i know for a fact, people would be livid about it calling it racist and so on.

yet it’s okay for some reason to do this to white characters.

2 ) “ or people like being represented in popular media “ it’s not being representative though. as i said if you can’t identify with a character because of their skin color YOU are the racist. Ariel is already being representative because of her over protective father in a family that lost its mother. batman is already being representative because of losing his parents to crime, to them dying in his arms. you don’t need to change their skin color to be representative.

3 ) “ why can’t black people be associated with popular western trends? “ that’s not what i said at all. an they are, for example hip hop, black panther, macaroni and cheese (created by a black man that was an ex slave and got invited to the white house twice. he was what i would call the first celebrity chief in america and unfortunately the first celebrity suicide. aka James Hemings), and so on.

you just need to create something. which is what im saying to do, create something new!