Chromatic Campaign, anyone?: The Case For Rashida Jones To Play Lois Lane

This comic clearly meant well. It was obvious that the creators wanted to teach a message of acceptance, and the idea of “we’re not so different, you and I,” is certainly intact, but it’s the poor, ignored black people in the story who learn the lesson. Lois shows up as this well-intentioned white woman and gets ignored, turns into a black chick and gets invited to parties. She never acknowledges that showing up as a privileged white woman who finds black culture “neat” might be ignorant. She doesn’t remark, “Hey, I guess my snooty, insensitive questions were in hindsight, rude,” she just concludes that black people hate white people for no reason. That isn’t sending a message of tolerance; it’s saying “black people are racist.” Also that Superman really needs to use his ultimate power on more worthwhile causes.

Well, there’s no Kal-El here to back it up, but not only does casting Jones as Lois feels right, the idea suddenly seems tenable, in the wake of the Donald Glover-for-Spider-Man campaign of months ago. We can call it, say, #rashidaforlois on Twitter. Because if you can have a British Superman, what makes a bi-racial Lois so unkosher by comparison?

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