Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161109142908/@comment-4010415-20161114111149

VedranTheII wrote: Not to subtract from your point, as I am a firm believer in an author’s freedom of expression as long as I have the choice what to watch, but that’s not remotely the same thing.

When a power can go anywhere but an author only gives it to people of a particular skin color, that’s a choice. When a power specifically only works on a particular skin color, that’s a restriction.

Any one show where the powers only went to white people as you've put it, can one day have a spinoff or an expanded cast that includes people of other skin colors. If a show exists where the power in question is racist and specifically  only  targets... let's use your example and say it only works on black people, then such a situation cannot happen without some form of a reboot. I didn't say that there's a lot of entertainment media where powers are restricted to white men, just that white male characters get the spotlight as awesome powerful badasses often enough.

And, honestly, in my mind, I was imagining an example where there's a superhero series where one of the characters is a black person who has that power that only gets passed on to black people, but there are characters of other races with their own powers.

Personally, I'm just looking for more variety in entertainment media where the action genre isn't quite so saturated with "powerful badass white male protagonist guy(s)" and we get more of a variety to look at. It gets kinda bland, y'know?