{"id":41187,"date":"2014-02-24T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/clutching-comic-book-pearls-over-a-black-johnny-storm.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:34:48","slug":"clutching-comic-book-pearls-over-a-black-johnny-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/clutching-comic-book-pearls-over-a-black-johnny-storm.html","title":{"rendered":"Clutching comic book pearls over a black Johnny Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jeez, folks, if this is the biggest, most profoundly irksome thing you have going on in your life, then drop down on your knees and pray in thanksgiving, brother.<\/p>\n

That said …<\/p>\n

1. Johnny's race\/ethnicity has never been something significant about the character. He could be white, black, fiery red, whatever.
2. We live in enough of a multi-racial society that the Storm sibs being black and white strikes me utterly inconsequential.
3. When the entire FF get cast as\u00a0black except for Ben Grimm who then gets turned orange, then we\u00a0whiteys can complain. Until then, we can just shut our gobs about 1\/4 of the Fantastic Four being something other than All-American White Folk.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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THE COLOR BARRIER: Hollywood’s New “Fantastic Four” & Effective Brainwashing – Comic Book Resources<\/a>
\n THE COLOR BARRIER: Hollywood’s New Fantastic Four & Effective Brainwashing – Johnny Storm will be played by a Black actor in Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot, but, as it turns out, that’s not the reason fans are angry.\n <\/p>\n

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Jeez, folks, if this is the biggest, most profoundly irksome thing you have going on in your life, then drop down on your knees and pray in thanksgiving, brother. That said … 1. Johnny's race\/ethnicity has never been something significant about the character. He could be white, black, fiery red, whatever.2. 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