[Antoninus]

I just read a novel (got it for free, mind you--didn't purchase the darn thing) called The Whiskey Rebels. It has exactly this same trope going on. The main character was a drunken former Revolutionary War spy with a high opinion of himself. But you find out as you move through the novel that he's being manipulated by all the other characters. The heroes were as follows: a Jewish assassin, a black slave, two homosexual frontiersmen, and a woman who happens to be smart enough to nearly take down the early American financial system with no money.

The evil characters are all white males.

Think Hollyweird and big publishing are trying to tell us something??

I don't care how "good" the entertainment value of this stuff is, if you're watching or purchasing it, you're contributing to people who want to destroy you--and you are showing yourself to be contemptible enough to be worthy of destruction.

[Borges]

Purchasing what? Any book/TV/movie at all? Any and all worthwhile culture? I’m supposed to not watch/buy something like say ‘Doctor Who’ because it’s made by the BBC?

[50sDad]

Two words: Robin Hood.

In the remake a few years ago, Robin was a clueless lackluster doofus. Moran Freemen (great actor, but not a white saxon from the Middle Ages by any means) played a "Moorish" black Muslim clad in Arab robes who was smarter and more scientificly learned than any of Robin's regular men. Thanks Hollywood.