Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man

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countessnoir:

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)

“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”

Ugh at the ignorance

And you know it’s pretty funny because there’s is another spiderman called Miles Morales:

ayo well look at that a black spiderman holy shit someone who isn’t peter parker because apparently there’s only one spiderman and god forbid there is a superhero who is of color.

They can go fuck themselves I swear to god.

Also what the fuck with “oh there are no black kids like peter parker” what kind of ignorant statement is this are you implying that black people can’t have tastes outside the stereotype that people have painted on them? Go eat a dick.

Yeah I wanna say Miles came after this fiasco  so there was some semblance of justice. But still this is why black people (and every other ethnic minority) need to be shown in normal roles, we need to be shown saving the world and liking science and playing video games because if you don’t..if you keep painting people with the same tired brush and don’t show anyone of color being an individual this how you end up with dumbass assuredly telling Glover that there’s no such thing as a black Peter Parker. This is why I keep getting comments about “being different then those other black people” or the “Why are you acting white” comments. It’s fucking pathetic that we’re even having this conversation and that people are still so mindlessly stupid. [SOURCE]