Not a lot of cohesive things to say but I do have…
Some Thoughts:
- Given the influx of African American fandom to anime will there be more black characters in Anime? No. Here is why: There are less than 25,000 black folk in Japan. There are more Ainu than blacks. In truth the anime culture focuses heavily on Japanese and German culture specifically. There are 83 million Germans still which is not reflective of the percentage of the world pop the nation had during the height of the cultural alliance between Japan and Germany. In short, we don’t have the market size to make an impact. There are quite a large number of black people in the world, but the African American population is sub 50 million. So, there’s that.
- Interesting developments in the Brian Flores situation. Man gone went and sued the NFL (and the Giants) claiming he never got a fair shot at a job. He isn’t wrong. Giants knew it was Daboll and the two non-white candidates were merely Rooney show horses. They interviewed Graham to keep him there. Flores was just the big name. NFL racist? No surprise. Given the increased number of highly talented black assistants over the last decade it is hard to fathom that there is only one black coach in the NFL. One Hispanic coach too… And that is all.
- It is Black History Month! Not sure what to do with that in the age of CRT…
- Somehow this rolled into a rant. Imagine that. I gotta stop peeking at Fox news and getting mad.