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Nai and Ta-Nehisi have both smartly weighed in on the racial politics of the new X-men movie, so bear with me if your all race-and-comics’d out. The comics book industry has always been dominated by white male artists and scribes, which makes it sorta unsurprising that the avatars for their power fantasies have historically been Read More

Imagine: you’re a staggeringly powerful alien from another planet who crash lands on Earth and grows up as a white person in the United States.  It’s probably safe to say that you’re going to have some serious issues with entitlement and privilege. So it was for young Clark Kent, who grew up in lily-white Smallville, Read More