What if the Animorphs were racist?

[TobiasMasonPark]

     I wonder if his mom has a RAF account That would be funny.

[Darth Zakryn]

No she doesn't. She's from the forties.

[Myitt]

I'm not from California, but where I'm from that wouldn't happen without at least a few people commenting about it.

I'm glad I'm not from where you're from... 

[Blaise Zebrataur]

Well didn't David call Tobias a racist one time for saying he didn't like seagulls as much as he does other hawks and that?

[Terenia]

Chad: My mom says you sound like a racist in saying we have different skeletal structures. Her words, not mine! So... can I ask if you have any proof? To tell her?

Ah, I believe that's actually true. I remember learning about it in my anthropology class in college. For example, negroid skulls have slightly larger orbitals (the area of the skull where the eye is), whereas I believe mongoloid skulls tend to be on the smaller side overall.

I'll see if I can find my old Anthropology book and get a direct quote.

[crystalclear]

Our skeletal structures might be different but is it that big of a deal? I mean, generally male have bigger brains that females, does stating that make me a sexist?

Actually I would mind if one of the Anis are racist, maybe it'd be more interesting if one of them were narrow minded, but not toward racism, probably toward disabled people? Or toward people from different religion/culture (culture != race)

[LisaCharly]

Well, Ax was a total pill about disability.

That said, Grapplegate tackled race pretty well in Everworld, IMO.

[Unknown User]

I always found it kind of weird that no one ever mentioned that Cassie was black. It's not like I expected the fact that she was African American to be constantly brought up and talked about in the series (it would have been annoying if that had happened), but her skin color is mentioned one time through out a three year period. It seems to me that 13-16 year olds would have at least talked about it at some point. 

Yeah, Ax's attitude towards Disabled people totally turned me off. I was like "AX is the best" then he got all freaky about that guy being a Vecol and I was like, "Ax is a pig", but then I guess he kind of worked it out.

I also found it strange that although Animorphs tackled a ton of heavy issues (for the age group) that they never did anying on Sexual orientation.

[LisaCharly]

I'm not surprised at that, actually. Remnants was geared towards an older audience and a published few years later than Animorphs, and Scholastic scrubbed any reference to Tate's lesbianism out. Even if Grapplegate had put such a discussion in, Scholastic probably would have removed it.

[Blaise Zebrataur]

Well either way I don't think that the Animorphs were racist at all,but that is just me.

[LorenF15]

My new theory is they were all racist against Asians. Think about it, none of them talked to/were friends with Asian kids! 

[Chad32]

Or Japanese! Or Chinese! Or Indian! Or Native American! Or British! My God, so much racism! I feel unclean!!

[TobiasMasonPark]

My new theory is they were all racist against Asians. Think about it, none of them talked to/were friends with Asian kids! 

     I never actually remember them describing/talking to any other friend that wasn't Erek or Melissa. And it's not like they described other kids as "white guy said", or "black guy replied" or "asian kid retorted."

     Oddly enough, we do see them describe other races.

[LisaCharly]

Allison Kim was Asian and she was a BAMF. Therefore this Asian reader gives KA a pass.

[Stephquiem]

The only mentions of Cassie being black that I can think of are in #23 and MM#4. Both relating to her being with Jake, and both pretty much saying "only a moron cares about that sort of difference."