I believe I remember hearing once Irish used their word for “black” for, like, demons, so actual Black people are instead described with their word for “blue.”

Surtr is black and his name is literally “The Black/Dark-Skinned One.” Surtr is a Jotunn. Ergo, Jotunn’s can be black and it makes sense that Angrboda, a Jotunn, is also black.

Gods arent real. They WERENT anything, except for (believed in by people local to a region) gods of all existence. When you pull some legit ancient mythological text out your ass that describes the color of a gods skin, maybe well talk, but the vast majority of pre-christian depictions of norse gods are verbal, and…

Blackwashing is not a thing because black characters do not erase white characters or culture the way whitewashing was always intended to erase characters of color in favor of white-folk-approved props. Because context exists. Whitewashing has a history, a function and an objective effect, while ‘blackwashing’ is just…

Norse gods weren’t anything, because they aren’t real.

And if this were a faithful retelling of Norse mythology specifically targeted at a Norse audience, you might have the beginnings of a point.

“Norse gods were not black folks”

The only reference you have of how gods looked is whatever the artist pulled out of their ass at the moment. Which is the same thing being done here.

Hermione can be black. James Bond could be black. Their skin color don’t matter.

Gods, in this instance Frost Giants, aren’t HUMAN.  Other depictions of this character have shown her with blue skin.  So, if the character isn’t technically ANY race, why are you upset her skin is Black?  This is the same character who gave birth to literal monsters.  Are you going to get pissed because her wolf and…

Because the overwhelming number of folks that show up on screen (especially in main roles) are white, so having a person of color fill a role previously portrayed as white is fine because it helps push against that trend whereas having another white person taking a role that would otherwise be a person of color winds…

Simple.  Because blackwashing is not a thing.  It doesn’t exist.  

I’m a black man who’s tired of people praising representation for representation’s sake without evaluating the merits of a character but I will say this character has real promise.

I mean, yes, Reddit has plenty of shitbirds, but the #1 post on the God of War subreddit in the past week, out of all the possible conversation about the new announcements, is shitting all over racist fans:

Republicans have immigrants, Democrats have progressives, both of them scapegoat those groups in their unending quest to push America to the right. After all, that’s what the money wants.