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If April in that show was a great character, I don't think it would be because she was black. Characters aren't great because they're a specific ethnicity, they're great and they happen to be a specific ethnicity. It's more just an issue of change for the sake of change. If you want to make her black, there should be a reason for it. By making her black in this case, it's a clear deviation from source material, and it's done for no other reason than because they wanted to be diverse. For this to be a justified change, they need to actually do something with it. As it is currently presented? I find it a bit annoying. But if she was black in this version because she and Angel were sisters, or because she was Baxter Stockman's niece or something, or if they wanted to tell some sort of story about the hardships that being part of an ethinc group can bring? That would be cool. But they aren't doing anything with here. Here, she's just black because they wanted to show off how diverse they are.
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