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Twitter Campaign Wants 'Community' Actor to Be First Non-White Spider-Man

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The origins of this latest attempt by social media users to influence casting decisions occurred last week. After surveying the five mostly unknown white actors said to be vying for the role, Marc Bernadin, a writer for the sci-fi site io9.com, called the choices "bland" and asked, "In this day and age, why does Spidey have to be a white guy?" In response, commenters threw out Donald Glover's name as a possible contender, and a Twitter campaign was born.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twitter-campaign-wants-community-actor-to-be-first-non-white-spider-man.html

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Dammit, now this is gettiing ridiculous. They already brother-ized the Green Lantern, Cat Woman, and Nick Fury. Why do we have to change the race of a (for lack of a better word) literary character because it's "in this day in age?" Whatever the hell that means.

Okay, diversity, you can have Spider-Man. In exchange, we want Patrick Dempsey to play Blade. In this Day in Age, why does Blade have to be black? Sure there's already 3 movies and countless comic book series portraying him as a black man, but who'd notice if all of a sudden he pulled a Michael Jackson and turned white overnight?

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