The Four Color Media Monitor

Excuse me, but what the frak is so 'anti-American' about Ta-Nehisi Coates, to you, and why is his being a writer for Black Panther and this title a problem for you? If you or any of the other Trumpian fascists don't like Marvel (or DC) broadening their base, you and the other neocons don't have to read said books: that's all there is to it. This is nonsense from a pack of sore winners who feel the need to attack anything and anybody that isn't a neocon like yourself, and it's complete bullcaca. Plus, you don't even live in the USA, anyway! So why does Coates's writings about the USA affect you? What is so poisionous to you about BLM, and black people wanting to end police brutality towards black people?

As with the extreme left, please get up off your asses and create your own right-wing comic books with right-wing superheroes being as right-wing as you want them to be. Better yet, why don't you all go back in time and stay there? You'd all be a lot happier in the 1940's or 1950's America (and Israel) instead of living in 2017, since all that you seem to crave is an all-white world.

Why can't Coates (Waid, Marz, Slott, Simone, et al.) create their own leftist heroes instead of corrupting beloved characters from the Silver Age and even Golden Ages?

Because leftists are not builders or creators. Like Muslims, they can only steal or tear down what others worked to build.

Comic book sales are a fraction of what they were in the sixties and earlier, when they were unpretentious and apolitical.

And "police brutality" means police officers shooting back at thugs who attack them. Libtards condone unprovoked aggression, then condemn any use of force in self-defense or in retaliation.

Superheroes have always been social justice warriors; why else would they fight evil for no money?

Superman in his earliest issues fought for the rights of the wrongfully convicted, for mineworkers whose safety was jeapordised for the profits of greedy mine-owners, and for abused kids. When right-wingers in the U.S. were isolationist, trying to keep immigrants out of the country and avoiding alliances with European democracies and proclaiming America First, Captain America was punching Hitler in the jaw and the other Timely heroes were fighting World War II while America was still officially neutral. Rex Dexter of Mars gave us a Martian utopia out of the Communist Manifesto, where money was obsolete and each gave according to his ability and received according to his needs.

In the late 1940s, Timely was already replacing white male heroes with women counterparts, sending Bucky and Toro to the farm and replacing them with Golden Girl and Sun Girl.

In the 60s, heroes crusaded against bigots such as the Hatemonger and Sons of the Serpent, and the books introduced scores of African=American characters. They campaigned against pollution. Eartha Kitt became a black Catwoman on the Batman tv show; while race blind casting gave us an Italian Modesty Blaise. In the seventies, we had a Hispanic Wonder Woman in Lynda Carter; later Lois and Clark gave us a part-Hawaian-Asian Superman and Smallville gave us a Jewish Lex Luthor, an Eurasian Lana Lang, and a black Pete Ross.

This is not surprising. Most of the creators of the early comics were the ones who would work cheap and fast - second generation immigrants, young, the children of the sweatshop garment workers in New York, Italian and Jewish; they saw their parents exploited at work, saw how unions could help people, knew what it was like to face discrimination and have to work twice as hard as the people who came over on the Mayflower simply in order to get to the same place.

Lee, Kirby, Shuster, Siegel and the rest were leftists, new deal liberals. Comic books were never apolitical, and they were more likely to be left-wing than right wing.

Eartha Kitt was cast as Catwoman only when Julie Newmar was no longer available, and the sexual tension between her and Batman was dropped.

The original Sons of the Serpent turned out to be communist agents provocateurs.

The FDR Democrats were pro-labor, and the New Deal was about helping laid-off workers get back on their feet. Today's "liberals" (and most Republicans) are anti-labor, and the modern Progressive agenda is about taxing workers and giving the money to welfare recipients in exchange for votes.

And both parties want unrestricted immigration, as a source of cheap labor and, for the Democratic party, a source of votes.

So, when are we going to see Captain America punch an ISIS leader?

Or Batman subduing antifa thugs who are rioting in the streets?

Or Matt Murdock defending a white cop who is on trial for shooting a black mugger in self-defense?

There is no valid comparison between Jews fleeing the Holocaust and Muslim immigrants.

Jews were not Nazis. The Syrian "refugees" are Muslims,meaning that they share the same basic ideology as the faction from which they are supposedly fleeing.

Holocaust victims did not have a lot of options as to where they could go. There was no Jewish state at the time. There are plenty of Muslim countries that could easily take in Syrian immigrants. They won't, because of the danger of terrorist Trojan Horses. The US has the right to take the same precautions as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

The US once had an open door immigration policy. That was before 9-11. It was also before we had a massive public welfare system. Immigrants had no choice but to work, obey the law, and assimilate.

And the victims of 9-11, San Bernardino, and the Boston marathon bombing might have benefited from an isolationist, America first policy. But protecting the lives and rights of American citizens was a low priority under Obama's America Last policy.

And the victims in Paris, Nice, Brussels, and Cologne would have been better off with their governments putting their own countries' interests first.

If you want to see Captain America taking on antifascists, check out Captain America: Sam Wilson no 17. Wilson became very right-wing in the course of the series, for example covering up corporate crime on the basis of a trickle-down theory of economics.

You will be unlikely to see any white cop on trial for shooting a mugger in self-defence. You would more often see the ambiguous ones,where the cop made a wrong split-second choice and shot someone who was not dangerous, and the court has to decide whether his wrong decision was nonetheless reasonable in that moment.

Holocaust victims did not have a lot of options as to where they could go because the United States was trying to keep them out before and after the War; the country let some in, but only a fraction. From the perspective of now, they seem different from the Muslim Syrian
refugees; but back then there was the same hatred of them that there is against the Muslims now. When the U S did have an open door policy, the police chief of New York published a bigoted article blaming the bulk of the City's crime on Jews, who of course were also seen as dangerous bomb-throwing anarchists and revolutionaries. Not all of them, of course; but better to play safe than sorry and not let any more in, no?