Well, there are other ethnic groups outside of African-Americans that exist.
Black Ironman
Black Powergirl
Black Spiderman
It seems really cheap and patronizing when their go to solution for ethnic diversity in stories is to just make people black who weren't originally.
Maybe you're right, but it seems like when people invent totally new and unique superheroes, they don't get off the ground. So it'd be hard to introduce an originally non-white/non-male superhero and get it off the ground, because the predominantly white male audience that superhero comics have wouldn't identify with it as much.
It seems like Marvel and DC want to expand their audience to be more inclusive and this is probably their best option - I've yet to hear women or people of color complain that stuff like this is patronising, they seem mostly supportive of expanding their media representation one way or another.
We are also turning Superman into a genderfluid crippled black midget with elephantitis and autism.
Why bother with worldbuilding and writing when we can just do this so the people incapable of reading can sympathise with him inmediatly simply because of his race, loveual identity and handicaps.
I think Superman is such a blank slate in terms of his personality and character (he just does the right thing in most series/arcs, there are some cool alternative explorations of his character though) that he could easily be replaced by a new, not white/male character in a series without losing much of what he embodies
Once again, all these examples of Marvel or DC replacing your beloved characters are spinoff comics, not the main comics/cinematic universes. They literally do no harm, they're an attempt to expand the comic books audience.
It's the ANAD universe tho.
Where they change the characters anyways. Iron Man was due for a change because he was the only person on the ANAD avengers that wasn't changed already.
This is also a good point. The entire point of this universe is to cycle through heroes.
