{"id":27871,"date":"2013-01-27T02:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27871"},"modified":"2013-01-27T02:38:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:38:56","slug":"6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse-3-connor-hawke-the-mixed-race-and-possibly-gay-green-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27871","title":{"rendered":"6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20202_6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse_p2.html\" target=\"_blank\">6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cracked Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/members\/Ford44\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1970s, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DC_Comics\" target=\"_blank\">DC Comics<\/a> superhero <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Arrow\" target=\"_blank\">Green Arrow<\/a> has had sex with pretty much every female he&#8217;s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn&#8217;t much of a surprise when, in the early &#8217;90s, he discovered that he had a biracial son. He was named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Arrow_(Connor_Hawke)\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hawke<\/a>, and he was meant to replace his father as Green Arrow to once again try to breathe new life into the character by adding some diversity. <strong>The problem was, they couldn&#8217;t seem to agree on exactly what Connor&#8217;s parentage was, so they decided to make him a golden-haired blackasian&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20202_6-hilariously-failed-attempts-at-making-comics-more-diverse_p2.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow Cracked Magazine 2013-01-26 Ed Johnson Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he&#8217;s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn&#8217;t much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[13487,13484,13485,13488,13486],"class_list":["post-27871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-connor-hawke","tag-cracked-magazine","tag-dc-comics","tag-ed-johnson","tag-green-arrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}