When I fell my wings burned into stardust

Captain America was Jewish creators making a superhero who looked like the Nazi Aryan ideal but had the heart of a real American: a sick, poor, Irish immigrant kid from Brooklyn. He didn't punch Hitler on the chin on the cover of the first issue by accident.

Fantastic Four? Created by a Jew, who gave three of the characters super neat superpowers, and the Jewish character the inability to hide his powers at all. And then showed people reacting in horrified ways to Ben's appearance like, perhaps, he'd seen happen to his family and friends and neighbors because they looked "too" Jewish.

There were hints and subtext if you knew about the bit of New York he was from, and in the 70's Jack Kirby sent out a Hannukah card with Ben in prayer shawl and yarmulke, with menorah, but that was a personal thing, not featured in he comics.

But it was Fantastic Four 56 in 2002 which had him "reveal" his Jewish identity on panel, when he thinks and old man from his neighbourhood is dying and Ben can't do CPR on a normal human because... well, obvious reasons.

Turns out the guy isn't dead, and they talk a little about things.

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Just making use of my free will