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when you spend a good chunk of your life learning that people hate you and want you gone purely based on your existence, it starts to weigh on you. Finally getting to a point where we're allowed to be heroes, main characters, NOT villains or cannon fodder or treated as weird offshoots is a big thing. It's cool to see people who look like you being treated as, well, people, for once, or being allowed to take part in something. So when one of the most popular and varied games on the planet doesn't include you, or has you relegated to a costume, it hurts. It hurts that you aren't allowed to be the default or take part. And that's why it gets brought up so often.

I remember when black people used to be cool, man. Internet made even black guys soyboys, wtf.

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that's what happens when you stop making Shaft and Black Dynamite.

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When Idris Elba retires, the blacks won't have a cool black in the media anymore.

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