Here's the link to the comic for anyone lazy. I don't care about comics or superman but was curious about this. In defense of the white people who wrote this, the above page is the last page and Mohammed X (lol) does get the final word, which can be read I think as Superman's empty pablum being seen for what it is. Superman has no defense when accused of never saving people in Harlem, and Mohammed X is never shown to be wrong. Also in the authors' defense, when they get superman to go to his one black friend's house, said friend is mercifully absent. Likely they plotted out a scene where he was congratulated on not being racist by a respectable older black person but canned it before print. They did however include a line about how not all black people agree with militant density-shifter Mohammed X, inviting the reader to imagine their own smiling, agreeable black person who likes Superman, without them actually having to depict it.
Unfortunately they somewhat damned themselves by having Lois Lane go on for ages about how righteous it is to be color-blind and how reverse racism is the real racism. The green alien guy reciting the 14 words was also uncalled for as far as I could tell (not up on the lore, idk if that's a thing green guys usually do in-universe)
Here's the link to the comic for anyone lazy. I don't care about comics or superman but was curious about this. In defense of the white people who wrote this, the above page is the last page and Mohammed X (lol) does get the final word, which can be read I think as Superman's empty pablum being seen for what it is. Superman has no defense when accused of never saving people in Harlem, and Mohammed X is never shown to be wrong. Also in the authors' defense, when they get superman to go to his one black friend's house, said friend is mercifully absent. Likely they plotted out a scene where he was congratulated on not being racist by a respectable older black person but canned it before print. They did however include a line about how not all black people agree with militant density-shifter Mohammed X, inviting the reader to imagine their own smiling, agreeable black person who likes Superman, without them actually having to depict it.
Unfortunately they somewhat damned themselves by having Lois Lane go on for ages about how righteous it is to be color-blind and how reverse racism is the real racism. The green alien guy reciting the 14 words was also uncalled for as far as I could tell (not up on the lore, idk if that's a thing green guys usually do in-universe)