Question about Hal Jordan and racism

[Artistsean]

I haven't seen the rest of this comic, and I thought I heard somewhere, but was Hal Jordan suppossed to be sort of racist or something?
Or was it just showing that he didn't tackle real world problems?

 

[The Leaguer]

There are a lot of things wrong with Hal Jordan. Racism is one of them.

 

[Tropico]

No, it's not.

 

[The Leaguer]

It's one of the right things?

 

[Tropico]

No, he's not a racist.

 

[CConn]

Ask not what Green Lantern can do for you, but what you can do for Green Lantern.

 

[Artistsean]

Was that all this was trying to say? Why doesn't Green Lantern to more to help? Or was this why he doesn't help african americans?

 

[Hush]

If he was racist that wouldnt be very heroic of him would it. Then again killing lots of people and then getting treated like it was just a wee little accident isnt very heroic either.

 

[supermarvelman]

Dude he was talking about real world problems, they just used a black guy to help the point to be made. If he was talking about black people, that would be bull****, Hal has helped people of all colors from earth on many occasions. Plus Hal and John are probably the closest out of all the Earth Green Lanterns, whom are all white.

 

[Purple Man]

Damn, Leaguer. You really let your prejudice against Hal show when you say he's racist.

What's your deal? Do you have a solid reason for disliking Hal so much or would you rather just admit that you're an ignorant bastard?

Only someone so dull could turn one of the greatest comics of its age and spin it into the main character being a racist bigot.

 

[Artistsean]

Dude he was talking about real world problems, they just used a black guy to help the point to be made.

Thats what I was wondering, I hadn't read that issue, I know he isn't racist but I thought maybe back then they had Hal deal with his own racism or something.

Plus I saw one comic documentary that said something about Hal and racist space cop, don't remember what documentary or what they said exactly though.

 

[The Leaguer]

Damn, Leaguer. You really let your prejudice against Hal show when you say he's racist.

What's your deal? Do you have a solid reason for disliking Hal so much or would you rather just admit that you're an ignorant bastard?

Only someone so dull could turn one of the greatest comics of its age and spin it into the main character being a racist bigot.

Aww, is poor baby gonna start crying?

 

[Assassin]

Damn, Leaguer. You really let your prejudice against Hal show when you say he's racist.

What's your deal? Do you have a solid reason for disliking Hal so much or would you rather just admit that you're an ignorant bastard?

Only someone so dull could turn one of the greatest comics of its age and spin it into the main character being a racist bigot.

He was raped by his Uncle, who's named happend to be Hal..t:

He's an idiot like that, he posts for shock value, he's like the Howard Stern of the hype. I bet you he doesn't mean half the **** he says, he only says it to piss people off.

He used to be cool.

 

[Tropico]

He still is.

 

[Assassin]

You're cool, he tries to be cool.

 

[The Leaguer]

Tropico loves me and he's never wrong.

 

[Tropico]

Leaguer came back a lil' darker after he disappeared from the Hype a while (he said he was enamored with midgets and couldn't get enough of them), but he's still cool. He's just misunderstood.

 

[The Leaguer]

Midgets are some soulless little bastards.

 

[Assassin]

I knew you'd sig me thats why everythings all punctuated and spelled correctly

I fooled the fool.

 

[Tropico]

Midgets are some soulless little bastards.

C'mon, don't be bitter because they don't want you in their S&M dungeon anymore.

 

[Assassin]

I have a great story about a midget that involves a whip, but thats a whole diffrent topic.

 

[Artistsean]

So I went to wikipedia to see if I could find a clear cut answer, here is what I found:

Some time after this, Schwartz invited O’Neil to take over Green Lantern. Wanting to represent his own political beliefs in comics and take on social issues of the late sixties and early seventies, O’Neil came up with the idea of pitting Hal Jordan, who as an intergalactic cop stood for not only Law & Order but The Establishment, against Oliver Queen, who O’Neil had characterized as a profoundly outspoken liberal and stood for the Counter-Culture Movement. The first issue he wrote had Green Lantern capturing a street "punk" who was pushing around a man. All around him, people start throwing things at the bewildered Jordan. As he steps in to attack, he is stopped by Green Arrow, who explains that the man he defended was a slum lord "fat cat" and goes even further to show Lantern the conditions of the slum. At the roof, in a now famous scene, an old African-American man grills Jordan as to why he has not done much for the "black skins" of his own planet while helping out other different colored aliens of other planets.

I also found this:

along with this that someone wrote:

Through these stories, I developed a real affection for Hal Jordan as a learning, growing character. He started out with the, to put it bluntly, the racism and classism of the average middle class white man in the time period. For me, he was the entry into the story. You got to watch Hal as he discovered the harmful attitudes he’d grown up with and slowly changed them while keeping his core personality, his heroic personality, intact. He worried, a lot, at first, (though as the story went on he regained his feet and his arrogance) that everything he did or said was wrong. But time and tales showed that prejudicial attitudes were just like airplane grease on his hands. They weren’t really a part of him or indicative of him true nature. They were superficial marks he’d picked up through contact with others. They could be removed, but it was difficult work that takes a lot of time and attention.

I think Hal started out as racist but grew to see he was wrong.
Now he isn't suppossed to be racist at all.

 

[Caliber]

Hal Jordan isn't a racist because Geoff Johns sees Jordan like Superman. Hes more than a racist.

 

[The Leaguer]

I knew you'd sig me thats why everythings all punctuated and spelled correctly

I fooled the fool.

You fooled me into what? The verb "fool" usually implies that someone got less than they were expecting. My expectations for anyone Hype-related are incredibly low, so obviously that's impossible.

 

[Kebab gud]

Too bad they cut out the next frame When Green Arrow is like all "You fashist pig" and stuff and goes all commie ape**** on Hal's ass...