What In The Hell Is Wrong With This Country?: September 2, 2022 Edition
In today's edition of "What in the Hell is Wrong With This Country?" we find ourselves looking at the recent actions of Warner Discovery-owned DC Comics. Why? Because the senior leadership brain trust over at DC Comics decided that the best way to "celebrate" National Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month was to reduce Latine and Hispanic culture to DC superheroes eating Latin American food on their "commemorative" comic covers.
Yes. You read that right. They went there.
In the year of someone's Lord, 2022, a major multimedia giant and comic book publisher said, "Let's celebrate Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month by havin' someone draw Green Lantern with a bodega bag full of tamales!" Because why try to create comic covers that are an homage to the contributions and perseverance of Latine and Hispanic communities in the Americas, in the United States, when you can whittle the identities of multiple cultures down to a couple of pieces of food that popped into your head when you think of them?
Face? Meet palm.
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