tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611875170009784219.post7030079478295015921..comments2024-03-15T12:42:11.939-04:00Comments on Noblemania: Siegel, Shuster, and ObamaMarc Tyler Noblemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10732005290440645718noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611875170009784219.post-46386301666768971972008-11-12T01:28:00.000-05:002008-11-12T01:28:00.000-05:00That's really lovely.If you'll indulge me in a tan...That's really lovely.<BR/><BR/>If you'll indulge me in a tangent, it also reminds me of something else I read and found unexpectedly moving. The current issue of <I>New York</I> magazine has a short item pointing out how Obama's election transforms the landscape for a particular group: underprivileged black kids who are bookish, intellectual, nerdy, or geeky and who are often mocked for "acting like white people." Now that a skinny, wonkish, nerdy man with brown skin who was mocked as a teenager for his love of reading (and who read comics as a boy) has become President, any geeky black kid who gets accused of "trying to be white" can just say "Is Obama white?"<BR/><BR/>I've done some local events for the Jack Kirby Museum in the Lower East Side neighborhood where Kirby was born, and one of the things we tell kids at these events is "Jack was a poor kid who lived in a tenement a few blocks away from here, and he went on to create Captain America and the Hulk and the Fantastic Four and Darkseid and all these other characters they know all around the world." It's the same message you're delivering about Jerry and Joe -- i.e., the greatness of the human imagination comes from right here, and don't let anyone tell you not to dream -- and I have to admit, that extra added symbolism with Obama gives me a tiny lump in the throat.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com