First you come into the SHIELD thread saying that having three females in the cast somehow "outnumbers" or "overshadows" the three male castmembers.
Now you're saying that having a very talented young actor with a different skin color than the character he's playing would be worse than having a semi-talented singer and not overly talented actress playing Lois Lane.
Either you're trolling or you've got some sort of white male superiority complex.
It was anonymous enough that it took me a bit to find this thread and your post, which I'm continually laughing at.
How many of the people making 80 percent of the posts in this thread would later revert to loving the casting if Michael B Jordan were cast and knocked it out of the park?
(Like he would.)
Probably all of them. That's how many.
Racism usually is. (When it's not violent, of course.)
It's really the best way to be right on the internet.
"Oh you have an opinion? YOU'RE RACIST."
No one is doing that. But when people say the nonsense that Cracked pointed out in a brilliant and hilarious way, you gotta call a spade a spade.
It was a different white male Human Torch, you're right. It doesnt change the fact that the guy who wrote this (just like every poster in this forum) knows nothing about the people posting in this forum or what their intent is.
And if you want to talk about prejudice at its most basest definition... That is, making decisions about people before knowing any and all relevant facts.
I don't know if any of you read cracked, it's a pretty big humor website, but a post from Spider - Man made it to the front page:
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-5-most-insulting-defenses-nerd-racism/
Scroll down to number one.
Personally I think the writer is misguided and looking to be offended. I'm not all for a black guy playing Johnny Storm, but I won't lose any sleep if they do cast him.