I know when the NAACP but the Civil Rights movement as we know it today didn't really kick off until the Montgomery Bus Boycott, that's when it became a real force to be reckoned with. Until then it was mainly small time, working small beats, it wasn't as big as it got with MLK.

Thank you, that's it right there. It's the background, it's like racism didn't really exist or if it did it was meaningless. He's a black lead scientist for a major company who (which the odds should be like a billion to one considering the amount of black scientists let alone the amount of black LEAD scientists) also…

A black scientist guy that also just happens to be involved in something like this, can shoot, is a Navy sailor, is given a lead job in a massive corporation, also falls for the white girl who's ALSO our main character, is kinda oblivious to racism and the possibility of his actions leading to most likely negative…

Actually no there wasn't. The reference to Dr Wilkes being a janitor was behind his back, in the 40s it'd be to his face, the overt racism I've already acknowledged and it wasn't played out to it's logical conclusion, with the good Dr buying food from the man when likelihood is he actually wouldn't have been served,…

My bad. Same principle though, the late 40s and early 50s were practically the same, the Civil Rights movement got rolling properly in the late 1950s.

I know it's L.A but L.A was still VERY racially abusive, just look at the reaction of the Watts riots. This wasn't the 1970s, this was the late 1940s, L.A wasn't as progressive as it is now.

It's the US, people had been beaten and/or killed for much less. In that day and age, there was a MASSIVELY bigger probability that that act would have resulted in a beating than not. You're not recognising the amount of racism that went on back then, and that's not an insult.

It's not really that, its' just that it's supposed to be a show set in the 1950s, they've got the sexism, but the racism was what was worse (in terms of the fact it produced body counts rather than just lack of career movements, so to speak) during that time. If there's no black people, you don't need to address it,…

Oh, must have missed that bit. Still, unless the racism aspect is going to come up and it's a subplot, I don't see why they couldn't have just made him a handsome white guy instead of a hot black scientist, just seems like they're inviting a debate about historical inaccuracies within film and TV.

Yeah, it's probably just because I'm black AND I've done some reading, AND I want to be in film that it kinda sticks with me. I don't know. I'd rather they hadn't addressed it, or better yet, just didn't introduce a person of colour in the show at all.

Not really, a shady company like Isodyne would want people who don't stick out like a sore thumb, they'd want people who wouldn't be noticed and/or wouldn't be seen as something unusual, so as not to draw attention to themselves. A black lead-scientist is the farthest you can get to something NOT unusual.

They should lool!!!

Yeah, I made a joke in my head that (also being bisexual, yeah I know, I'm a walking talking cliche loool!) the only thing that could make this worse is if he was a gay black man kissing his white boyfriend. It just stretches reality too far.

Funny you should mention the Olympics, I just re-watched the opening ceremony the other day! Yeah, everytime I watch it, it makes me immensely proud and I love it, but I do always get that nag in my head during the Victorian part where we shouldn't be seeing black people yet we are, especially as engineers, metal…

I know things happened, I know it's a corny show set in a superhero universe aimed at families loool! I just can't subconsciously accept that this character is who he is. If he's a shape shifter or mind controller, that makes more sense, but just a random black dude thats also now being involved in something like…

I have an imagination, but there's a black guy in a prominent position who's willing to kiss a white girl in public and is involved in a plot to cover up and/or develop and progress a possible alien substance, oh he's also a physicist and he's got what seems to be a lead role and the biggest thing is that all he seems…

If he was an old guy, maybe, but it's just improbable that it all works out so well that a hot black, former sailor, physicist is working at an organisation that seems to respect him well enough to give him a job working on a MASSIVE project as a LEAD scientist (it seems) and he's also gonna develop a crush on our…

The kiss wasn't in private, it was in a public phone-booth. I know it's an alternate universe, but it's still set in the 1940s/1950s, if there's rampant overt misogyny then without a doubt there is rampant overt racism. You can't have one without the other in that time period, especially as one was WAY more damaging.

Hmm fair point, but that's me suspending a HELL of alot of disbelief loool!!! I think it's worse for me (no offense) because I'm black and I've actually done quite a bit of reading on racism in the 1950s/60s, mainly due to my parents wanting me to understand my culture. I'm British, as are they, but the biggest…

It's not Hydra. Zola was still in prison at this point and he was the one who instigated the re-rise of Hydra in SHIELD. At this point there were many Hydra members but they hadn't re-formed into a proper organisation yet. Unless my MCU history is mistaken of course.