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[herbie]

Teen Titans? Starfire is an orange alien. Racist ?fans? don?t want a black woman playing her.



t takes a particular strain of hateful ignorance to harass someone so much that they don?t feel safe on social media. And it appears that certain ?fans? of DC Comics? Teen Titans have tapped into that toxic combination.

In comic books, two cartoon series, and a new animated movie, Starfire is a female alien with creamsicle-colored skin and a mane of scarlet hair. Like many female characters you see in comic books, Starfire is a supernatural and unrealistic being ? a work of pure imagination. Understandably, and largely because orange-skinned, energy-projecting aliens are not real, Titans cast a human actress named Anna Diop to play Starfire in a darker, grittier live-action TV version.

With Starfire, Diop, who has appeared on shows like Bosch and Greenleaf, snagged possibly the biggest role of her life. But in doing so, she also became a target of social media attacks from people who at best believed she didn?t embody their version of Starfire, and at worst resorted to heinous misogynistic and racist attacks on Diop:



Following the wave of harassment, Diop has turned off comments on her Instagram and minimized her social media presence. It?s the latest chapter in a particularly ugly ongoing saga about a certain segment of comic book ?fans? not getting exactly what they want and retaliating in the worst way possible.

Starfire is orange in the comics. People are mad that a black actress is playing her.

People got their first chance to see Diop in action as Starfire when the first trailer for Titans was released during Comic-Con last week. The trailer was met with a fair bit of skepticism (and mockery), mainly because it featured a flagrantly emo Robin uttering the phrase, ?Fuck Batman.? But that strange moment doesn?t mean the show is going to be bad, and for all we know, it could be great.

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618954/teen-titans-starfire-racism-anna-diop

[Toni Braxton]

Yet they had no problem with that cracker playing a Chinese character in that Netflix Marvel series for Iron First ? 

and Starfire isnt black or white she's ORANGE  whites are gross

[Freemala Harris]

I remember this

Those comic stans are deplorable

All this over an orange quee. They better stay mad

[Barbie Dangerous]

Is that Queen Aja?!

[CREAM.]

These reboots with blacks recasted as the original white character is offensive.
Someone here said it best recently.

It?s like we?re not even worthy of a newly created mess or something.

Like I don?t want a ?black Starfire?

And I?m black. No shade.

[CHOKE]

I?m kind of disgusted too tbh

[Hatsumomo]

Damn shame

[Hatsumomo]

These reboots with blacks recasted as the original white character is offensive.
Someone here said it best recently.

It?s like we?re not even worthy of a newly created mess or something.

Like I don?t want a ?black Starfire?

And I?m black. No shade.

I kinda see what you mean tho it?s like having a black Dracula or a white Blade .. it just doesn?t work

[Sinpool]

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Starfire ain't black or white and some of her appearances a black face model was used for her Naomi Campell specifically.



So this ain't a case of turning a white person black cause the girl ain't even humans!

[CREAM.]

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Either way the idea is tired and we need original black characters

[yummy]

These reboots with blacks recasted as the original white character is offensive.
Someone here said it best recently.

It?s like we?re not even worthy of a newly created mess or something.

Like I don?t want a ?black Starfire?

And I?m black. No shade.

Yeah, I saw someone on twitter saying they wanted a black Hocus Pocus and I rolled my eyes so ahrd I damn near saw the back of my brain

I've realized a lot of these black millennials didn't grow up watching black film or television and were forced to re-imagine themselves as all the white characters they were inundated with as children. I didn't really notice how bad it was until Black Panther came out.

[Freemala Harris]

Kings were ahead of their time 

[Sinpool]

StarGOD ain't fcking WHITE

[Sinpool]

Speaking of I just watched Blade for the first time in years.

The early 2000s really lived for a cyber punk post apocalyptic mess.

[LOONA.]

Alot of the gurs whining are racist trolls but alot of them are diehard fans who grew up watching the show and reading the comics, so they obviously know Starfire to look a certain way.

When I saw the trailer for the show I was pissed because she looks a fool. White or black she doesn't look remotely similar to Starfire. Curly red hair, purple eyes, purples lips? And why are her powers more like Dark Phoenix. They totally missed the mark.