https://youtu.be/aVUAbLTcAL4?si=if8v9jMTt9iAjRuO
I agree with the outreach message in principle but unfortunately just being black isn't being "like me", and that's where the disconnect is. To be like a person is a spectrum beyond just a preconceived standard of what is relatable.
That's why Captain America, Gundam, Avatar The Last Airbender 2005, Teen titans 2003, Pacific Rim, or Superman connects to so many people, they might not have been made to culturally look like blks or may not have been made for blks but they are "like" us, regardless of walk in life.
To tap into that beyond just being a "black" IP, that is truly building something that will connect in a more meaningful way.
Think about it this way if it's a character that could connect to anyone and they just happen to be black is more significant than just making a character to "be black" because we need more "black" which is more rigid & unlikely to appeal to most blacks anyway.
The formula Shawn speaks of (at the time & still to this day) would reach 60s blacks more successfully than how blacks are these days, which is more fluid. African Americans aren't the same cut cloth as before, they genuinely don't care about historical footprints, most of them like what's cool, aesthetically pleasing & well written.
If we had more projects in the same spirit as The Boondocks or that Black Dynamite show, then we're cooking with grease.
And white's & asians tend to make the coolest shit, most of the time.
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