No, he’s not contradicting himself. He’s saying that it’s bad enough that people expect him to only do martial arts films, but even worse that he can’t even get consideration to be the lead of those films. Marvel’s basically saying, Hey, Asian-American actor, we’d like you to be a ninja! But not the main ninja, the…

I really want to disagree with the point that Iron Fist isn’t very popular. He is one of my favorite characters. But I totally agree that there is absolutely no reason he has to be white.