To Develop: Blog 365 Day 39 – Superman is White. I Didn’t
Notice.
By Jiddoe S'Phatt
Warmest greetings! My name is Jiddoe S’Phatt. Welcome to day
39 of “To Develop: Blog 365”.
Inspiration to write comes from a number of places. For this
blog I’ve been inspired by hip-hop artist Rick Chyme and producer
David K. Manley of Man@Work Productions. Through a collaborative project
titled #DailyPieces365
these two artists will release a new song every day for 365 consecutive days!
Their impressive dedication has motivated me to write a new blog every day of
2018.
A little piece of me goes into each entry I write. I hope
you enjoy this one!
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Children have their heroes. One of mine was Superman. To me,
for the longest, he was simply the coolest of all cool things.
But every now and then I’d find myself around an adult who
wasn’t particularly fond of the last son of Krypton. A few of them just felt he
wasn’t thrilling or remarkable. If the adult was Black, their dislike of
Superman was socially and racially motivated.
For starters they weren’t keen on the idea of this White man
being the ultimate savior. They also took issue with him being mostly
invincible, especially being impervious to bullets. As I child I didn’t
understand why that was bothersome. Since then I’ve lived through of a number
of Black males being slain by bullets. I get it now.
They’d go on. Superman is nosey with his super hearing and
x-ray vision, they said. If he was Black with those power he’d be a criminal,
they said.
I watched Superman fly around the Earth so fast in reverse
of its rotation, it made time rewind. He removed a still smoldering missile
from beneath the ground where it impacted and he didn’t get burned in the
process. He raced a speeding train, won, then jumped across the track in front
it. He’d rescue someone in peril on the other side of the world and still make it to work on time.
In addition to all of that he could freeze things by
breathing on them and shoot beams of
heat from his eyes. As a child it made no sense to me why some Black people got
bent out of shape over the fact that Superman is White. I didn’t notice.
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