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I haven't seen the movie (and likely never will) but it sounds like this is a casting issue rather than one of race. Would you have had a problem with it if they had found a buff imposing Indian actor?
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It'd still seem strange to me, but having a buff imposing Indian playing him would have been closer to what the original character was suppose to represent so probably not.  I understand these are high school kids so he wouldn't be too developed but certainly they could have picked an actor that could give off the athletic, bad-boy vibe rather than whoever that was they chose.  He was just so far from Flash Thompson's original character they might as well have just made him someone entirely new instead.

One of the worst cases I have seen in recent series History of this obsession with minorities has to be the Jimmy Olsen switch they did for [i]SuperGirl[/i] though.  The young, dorky kid who was always in the superman cartoons who worked for the daily planet and was a redhead, was changed into a good-looking black man.  Well he got changed to James if I remember correct but still its so opposite of the original character it was just so weird.  Anyway, [i]Supergirl[/i] is definitely not a series I could ever recommend, a textbook example of politics and agendas being forced down the viewers throat without worrying about the story quality.

That new Star Trek series, [i]Discovery[/i], they're trying to do is going to fail miserably.  Doesn't look anything like how Star Trek is supposed to look or feel.