Let him live + let the rest of us prosper. Its bad enough that marginalized ppl have to settle for scraps of media representaton daily. There needs to be a phrase for the feeling you get when an actor you love is cast in a TV show you adore. Our resident Flash recapper, Christelle said: Thankfully, I follow the right people on twitter and social media. Not only is Wally black in the current New 52 comics, this isn’t the first time a character on a Greg Berlanti universe show was racebent (see the above list that includes The Wests, Jimmy Olsen, and Hawkgirl, spanning three TV shows), so you’d think people would be used to it by now 1. While I’ll never understand the outrage over racebending and allowing more diversity in beloved stories and universes (especially when there is silence from comic/book/original “purists” when a character of color is whitewashed), the outrage here is redundant. You can’t get mad at racebending a character who is related to already racebent characters. But in this example, Wally’s black casting is primarily about plain old consistency. We’ve written about the very interesting trend of changing a prominent number of red-headed characters into black characters before. In fact he used to be white and red-headed. The original Wally WestYes, Wally used to be white. ( See: Iris/Joe West, Jimmy Olsen, Johnny Storm, Hawkgirl, Nick Fury, Heimdall, I’m tired now. The typical outrage at a once white (in these cases - superhero) character being cast as black has begun. NOC readers and really, anyone with access to Twitter knows what happened next. In the only casting choice that makes sense in the African-American family of Joe and Iris West from TV’s The Flash, Divergent star Keiyan Lonsdale has been cast as Wally West aka Kid Flash!
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