Question about Hal Jordan and racism

[Eros]

What the f*** is up with your signature? Are you declareing war on Phere or something?

He didn't seem to have to much of problem with it.

 

[The Leaguer]

That would have been a good response had I asked, "how much of a problem did he seem to have with it?"

 

[Eros]

No Leaguer I am not declaring WW3 on Darthphere.

 

[Darthphere]

Of course not, that would be foolish.

 

[Varient]

Of course not, that would be foolish.

(CHUCKLE)

 

[Noir]

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?

...Hal isn't a racist, I don't remember him demanding seperate facilities for Stewart.

 

[Antitang]

Not sure if Hal is racist but John Broome might be. Gotta love when minority characters get slogans like "Great fish-hooks!"

BTW the picture was scanned from Green Lantern "Amazing Theft of the Power Lamp!"

 

[Assassin]

I posted this quote from a diffrent thread,

I dont like the Hal, Ollie and black canary club, its lame to me. Hal is like the sleezy friend who taps your shoulder while you're having sex with your g/f and whispers in your ear "ask if i can join".

Any body else get that vibe from him? I ask that here because all of the Hal haters/defenders are in this thread.

 

[Noir]

I get that vibe.

Long Live Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner!

 

[Artistsean]

I just watched Secret Origins of the DC Comics
I explains very well that comic scene,
Its not meant to show Hal as racist. Green Arrow watches Hal stop a young man from harassing a business man on the streets. He sends the kid to jail but then the people on the street throw trash at him,
Green Arrow explains why,
the young man was the only means of income for his sickly grandmother. The business man was kicking everyone in that building out so he can turn it into a shopping mall,
The African American old man who says, " I see you have done a lot for purple and green skins, What have you done for black skins?"
It was meant to show that Hal has been out fighting aliens in space too long, forgot about his fellow man. Helping all people from Earth, not just African Americans, but anyone.
Hal, in that instance, wasn't meant to be racist, just out of touch.

It was meant to bring real world issues into comics, this was taking place during Nixon, during a time when the young writers and artists were angry at what was going on around them.

 

[KevanG]

Wow, this one got dragged back from the dust bins. Didn't it?

 

[fifthfiend]

one of the more spectacular threadsurrections, yeah.

 

[fifthfiend]

SIDE NOTE why the hell is leaguer still banned

come on Corp

fix this

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Never.

 

[Mystirious]

Hal is not racist

He will punch people of all races and species

 

[TheCorpulent1]

But he punches black folks slightly harder.

 

[Franklin Richards]

As long as he goes easy on Brown people.

I hear he really hates people with black on the left sides of their faces. Everyone knows that real people have black on the right side of their faces.

 

[Dirt Like Me]

Hal's a total racist. WHITE gloves, POWER ring... Coincidence?





(Actually, yeah).

 

[Mystirious]

He also wants the power of the White Lantern

The white power

But he punches black folks slightly harder.

 

[Artistsean]

Out of context it makes Hal look sort of racist, but I heard the artist and writer talk about it, it was meant to show that Hal was doing nothing to help his fellow man. Something Superheroes in Comics hadn't really been doing until then (except for Superman when he was first created. He fought a wife beater, a crooked landlord, and I think some hate group on the streets or something. Until the Wortham trials Superman was a violent crusader against social problems.)