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    kivel: Astara, Pale maybe, albino no. As a father of two albinos I can tall you the genetics in it are misunderstood by those who believe that lack of need f... more »
    JennaW: And yet Radio Superman helped bring down the KKK in the 40s: [thisamericanlife.org] more »
    goldfarb: the title of this post should be "Superman's Secret Racist Past That Is Just Like Everyone Else's" and making Krypton racially diverse (to somehow mat... more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: The most offensive thing is that DC had them be harmed by a totally different type of Kryptonite which someone fortunately wrote a song about to warn ... more »
    Astara: Why do we presume that another world race like Krypton would have the same skin-color divisions as exist on earth? They have a frozen planet -- no 'ho... more »
    RAHfanboy: There doesn't seem to be any indication of a forced segregation on Krypton. Calling it a "superior" black race might have been their notion of extrem... more »
    BullfightsOnAcid: Graeme, thanks for the link to the Lois Lane I Am Curious (Black)! comic. Very funny. more »
    Alexis: Point is, everything really really old is usually really really racist. It's a very simple litmus test, it is. By the way, we as black people official... more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Is this explain Steel? And I mean the character, not the movie. Nothing can explain the movie. Nothing. more »
    nld3: Wasn't the country 95% white back in the 1930s? No wonder people of color were not in comic books etc. The market at the time was the white majority. ... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: That photo is freakin awesome. Could this story be comparable to how in modern days, Mandarin might not even be named such? *hackles ready to raise* more »
    Mount_Prion: My, Superman, what nice teeth you have! more »
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    Uncovered: Superman's Secret Racist Past?

    It's DC Comics' Superman's secret shame: Was Krypton such a backwards society that all black Kryptonians were banished to their own island... and when did the Superman comic first see a black character? More »