Anyone think Don is black?
 

Alright, this is a stupid thread, but a freind of mine recently mentioned that Donatello was meant to be the "black" turtle. This seemed really off to me, so let me know what you think

What was the reasoning? I know that stereotypes are not cool, but we've all heard them and I have never heard of a "science buff" black stereotype. Besides I am pretty sure all the turtles are green, though sometimes different shades. :tlol:

I just don't see how he could be the "black" turtle. He doesn't exude any sort of ethnic stereotype that would indicate he was intended to be black.

I mean, if he was going around calling everyone "dawg" and listening to rap non-stop and doing other things people associate with "black" (stereotypically, mind you) then it could be conceivable. I might even be able to see it if he had a black voice actor. For instance, Panthro is consistently thought of as "the Black Thundercat" solely because his voice actor was black.

But then, by that logic, Old Toon Shredder would be "black" and so would 2k3 Leatherhead.

No, I don't think the TMNT are any ethnicity other than "Mutant Turtle".

Your freind has no idea how right you are.

I propose that Donatello objects to the fundamental theory of racial distinctions, as epidemiological studies prove that genetic variation within self-defined human ethnographic populations is greater than genetic variation between said populations.

So you can tell your pal that. lol

Black?

But Donatello is green!

Raphael wore black in the Archie series, tho'.

I remember him saying something like black characters in cartoons are always the smart one, I didn't agree.

So, you think that Raph was like the Venom of the TMNT universe?

For every cartoon that contained a balck character as the "smart guy", I can think of just many that contained a black character as someone else.

You're friend really has no clue what he's talking about.

Well the Nightwatcher costume does look like a bondage play thing.

"The suit...feels good.."

Heh, I can settle this dispute once and forever...

Last time I checked, Donatello was green. You know, green skin, so he's green? And I'm pretty sure that he was intended to be green all along, since I've never seen him being pink-brown striped or yellow with a flower pattern. I've only seen him green.

Whoa, amazing...

So wait, is that like Hulk green or J'onn J'ozz green?

Donatello is green?
http://lowpost.net/blog/images/interview/donatello.jpg
http://www.tmnttoys.com/giants2.jpg
But yeah some times he is allot of times hes *gasp* BROWN
I think his friend was just bein' a snarky jerk if you ask me though.:roll:

Oh my god! Don is so dark! He's like the darkest character. Everything I like has to be DARKKKK! TMNT is so DARK.

umm hes a turtle...how cant he be black

Some one can make a moronic judgement by skin tone look at what I posted.
Also if anyone watches tv as of late and saw the show I love New York where that lady tries to find herself a man the one big guy kept getting made fun of saying he looked like a ninja turtle and they kept callin' him Donatello.:lol:

You saying a turtle dosen't have the right to be black?

Yeah everything I said totally alludes to that.:roll:

King of threads.

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HAZZA HAZZA!:lol:

That wasn't aimed at you.
Meet the target.

mmmmm meat...and quoting some one else in the first place would have avoided that smart guy cause the shot you fired hit me in the face.
now I'm a zombie:dead: Some body get Marvil comics on the phone!!:lol:

But at the time I had no idea you'd posted. Begining a responce and finishing it after dinner before going off to check out something else isn't the time when I'm most aware.

It's because I'm white isn't it?

I thought you where red? RED like meat mmmmm brains!
ZOMBIE EDIT: mmmm sig is brain must have brains mmmmmmm *drolls*http://www.tiglath.org/yahoo/smiles/big38.gif

That still doesn't have anything to do with Donatello as a mutant turtle. Apparently, the friend's logic is that the same logic works in reverse: that the smart character in a cartoon must be black. Which is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in quite some time.

Obviously, he's pink.

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Has any of the Turtles EVER been voiced by someone of black heritage? I know most have been Caucasian, and Leonardo was voiced by an actor of Japanese descent in the movies....

Frank Frankson/ John Campbell could possibly be black, but I doubt it.

CRAWWWWLIIINNN' IIIIIN MYYYYY SKIIIIN...

Gotta love some good oldfashionned darkness, angst and emo-music!

when i think of stereotypes for someone like don, i think of either a geeky asian dude, or a geeky white dude...somehow black just isn't it. it's not a typical stereotype. but let's be honest here and go what we can see plain as day, he's a geeky green dude...tchyea?

hmmm...


Maybe Raph's Native American

And Leo's an Inuit

And Mike's got an Asian parent and a Native American parent.

And Don's got an Inuit parent and a Native American parent.

yeah...that's it, see. The bandanas are Splinter's way of telling the ancestry of each of them....yeah...



:roll:

I did think that Donnie's VA from the second movie sounded a little black, but if any turtle is black it's...

hahahaha spoiler. nice

lmfao...in that case, JESTER IS WRONG.

if the turtles were human, their ethnicities would be the following.

Raphael = italian
Leonardo = asian (he seems more japanese than anything)
Michelangelo = caucasian (californian)
Donatello = black?

Raph? Italian? Na. He'd be AUSTRALIAN!! Only without the accent :P As for the skin color thing...

Dewd.

They are turtles.

They must be pink.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/Ra-Cho/PINK.jpg

End of discussion.

dude...what is with leo's sai and donnie's nun-

hey...wait a minute..

"Hey, you're black, right?"

""Here we go."

"I hate that stereotype that all black people yell at movie screens. You know? Like, you go see some horror flick, and you be yelling, like, "Don't go in there, girl, he behind the doh'!" You know? It's like...it's offensive."

"You wish were allowed to yell at the screen, don't you?"

"Why does she go in there!? I mean, he's behind the doh'!"

Woah ... I guess this thread is a joke? But as far as the poll goes, I don't know why an automatic option would be that he's white, if he's not black or "green." If the Turtles had a race, I would presume it was ... Japanese-American?