Monday, November 10, 2014

"Zordon" is Prejudice



Anyone who grew up in the 90's watched "Power Rangers", and the people in my generation that deny watching this every day after school are lying. Well, at least ALL white kids did.... and looking back on this show, it was kind of racist. "Yellow Ranger" was an Asian girl, "Green/ White Ranger" was the leader white guy and "Pink Ranger" was the leading white girl who was the love interest of "White Ranger" (of course). The "Blue Ranger" was just a super nerdy white guy and the "Black Ranger" was the only black guy on the team.

So maybe "Zordon" was a little racist.... and maybe He used stereotypes about each race to determine which color to assign to each "Power Ranger"... but that's just how things were in the 90's - that was the basic format for any team. Handsome white guy leads the team and has a romantic relationship with the cute white girl and the Asian girl and black guy were just there for diversity. I don't remember "Blue Ranger" being jewish.... but I think he was gay.

This video is funny because of how true it is. Also, can a giant glowing face be racist?? LOL

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