You can try to place your comments in perspective, but all they see is a beloved piece of media 'tarnished' by the observation that it was created to elevate white culture in a way that should be interrogated and changed.Īlmost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both.

Talking honestly about race in fantasy TVįrankly, as a Black TV and media critic who speaks out often on race issues, it's not new to find some audience members severely triggered whenever the topic comes up. (Fun fact: that outburst was triggered by a column NPR colleague Aisha Harris wrote back when she worked for Slate.)īut as columnists and late night hosts craft their snarky insults about pop culture racism, it's worth noting why so many fans are reacting this way: the original works that they love were super white-centered in the first place.Īnd these ideas about who gets to stand at the center of pop culture sorely need to be challenged. Amid grousing about 'white erasure' - as if white people are now or have ever been historically underrepresented in fantasy films - it all felt like a twisted version of the argument former Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly once made when she insisted that the fictional Santa Claus was white.

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