Deceptiklansmen
It was bound to happen. Some piece of pop-culture trash found its way into this strip. For a good reason, I should add. It seems that some people have managed to get offended at Transfomers, claiming that it is full of racial stereotypes. Of course that’s complete bullshit, I won’t argue point for point but needless to say that if you want to find something to get offended about, you will. Also, the color of the characters has nothing to do with it. Hollywood has a limited set of archetypes for each plot, the hero, the nerd, the coward and so on. If you watch Die Hard 4 you will see the role of Anthony Anderson’s overweight hacker nerd played by white guy Kevin Smith. You could similarly compare every role with another role played by a white actor. Yes, there are racial stereotypes in the media but goddamn it’s not like they made Jazz rape a white woman then steal her car stereo to score some crack. He gave his spark to save his friends which was very noble (as far as fictional fanboy-sob-inducing robot deaths go). For some bitter hag to look at that and go “see black robot has to die first!” is just fucking stupid. This blog, The Angry Black Woman, is oddly devoid of meaningful articles such as the disenfranchisement of black voters and other seemingly important issues and instead focuses on political correctness bullshit. Well, I hope this offends you too.