Well, my opinion hasn't changed. There are plenty of broken characters with fucked up backgrounds and they don't run around denigrating their own people. Aside from the fact that we are the ONLY race that does that shit, it's just lazy writing. Those other characters do just fine projecting menace and shattered childhoods without all the name calling.
But what really turns my screws is the insults he's always throwing at other black people come straight from white people. How is that rhetoric helping IN ANY WAY? It doesn't move the story forward. It doesn't define the character because all we get are the slurs, no context behind them. A self-hating black man? How novel. And the exec producer is black and he lets this shit fly? I just don't get it. It's supposed to be an uplifting show for black people because the dynamic of the protagonist is that he's a black superhero and not a pimp or criminal.
I agree with your statement that somebody should have checked all that noise long ago. One of his henchmen or even BL himself should have schooled him on how destructive it is for black people to talk to each other that way.
I'll keep watching until it gets boring. I stopped watching The Gifted because it got boring. Arrow the same.
But BL has by far the hottest black chicks on TV so there's that. I just kind of close my ears when Whale starts that bullshit. It's only a matter of time before he starts throwing around the N-word. Then I'll probably be gone.
And to your point that several politicians are just about at his level of hate-speech, while that is true, they aren't black. There may be one or two outliers but they quickly get swamped by SM.
