How come most African American superheroes names start with black

Emoryal

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Uhh Black Panther isn't African American and I don't think Manta is either
 
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First of all many of these were created by white writers in a time when political correctness wasn't a thing.

I also imagine the blaxpoitation era had a big influence on names/designs. See films such as black ceaser

Use your common sense breh
 

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Black Panther gets a pass, cause a black panther is a specific type of panther that has melanism (opposite of alibinoism).
Cougars, jaguars and leopards are all panthers... so a black panther is a specific type of animal.

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The most fukked up superhero was this fat white dude called the Brown Bomber. He would become a buff black dude, fight crime, then go back to being a fat piece of shyt cac. He was created by Dwayne McDuffie (creator of Static Shock :rip:) to highlight how racist the comic industry can be.
Dwayne McDuffie was a real one.
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That was a concept and not canon.
 

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there was this one episode of SpiderMan the animated series (forgot the name of the character) some older black man named the black something.
and he goes over his origin or whatever, and hes like "i named myself the black _____ for obvious reasons."
wasnt expecting him to say that.
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