Are the Turtles, "persons of color?"

[ToTheNines]

[Lord Nightwalker]

They aren't even human.
They're reptiles.
And if you go back to IDWs reincarnation element, they were Japanese.
Otherwise, they are simply mutant turtles influenced by Human cultures. And more pure of heart than many people in the world today.

[Prowler]

"People of colour" is a really funny term. I remember it being used in the 90s, but then it died out in the 2000s and then it came back again in the 2010s. Everyone has a colour. So calling anyone who's not white a "person of colour" is absurd. Does that mean, in Japan East Asians are not people of colour? And in Kenya, black people aren't people of colour? That would be funny

Originally Posted by neatoman

... Well, in IDW they're reincarnations of Japanese kids, does that count? Otherwise they're literally just mutated turtles.

Let's not bring reincarnation into this. That's a whole another can of worms...

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

No more than you are I are dogs if we were a dog in some past life.

Yes, very good point. And what if you were a African warrior in some past life? Or what if I was some Chinese peasant in some past life? HUH?

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Leo is Japanese, Don is Jewish, Raph is Italian and Mike is Lantinx.

What the hell is a "Lantinx"?

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Worrying about the 'race' of the Turtles as if they were humans is the very definition of 'white people problems'.

Didn't you say around the time of the first Bay Turtles turd that the Turtles were white and always "acted white"?

Also, some years ago, I saw people on social media arguing that Sonic and Knuckles were black. And none of the people making those arguments seemed to be white. It's more of an SJW thing, in general. And a ton of them aren't even white themselves.