I have always been quick to condemn the changing of a comic book character's skin color. For some reason, the people in charge of making decisions like to change white characters into black characters. It really doesn't make any sense. If you want a black character, make a black character. With my strong feelings about this topic, one could imagine my surprise when finding out about Baxter Stockman. I was raised on the original TMNT show so I knew Baxter as a white guy. Lo and behold he was originally a black guy! I was so upset at how characters were being turned from white to black that I never thought for a second that it could happen the other way around. How did I feel after finding out that Baxter was supposed to be black all this time? Angry! Why was he ever made white in the first place? What they should have done is made a whole new white character if they wanted one so bad. It doesn't help their cause that Baxter is completely different in the comics. Black guy in comics turns into cyborg. White guy in tv show turns into bug. This whole business is stupid. If they want more characters of a certain skin color, they should just make more. And on that note, I think the Falcon is cool.
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