The colour of green

The fifth earthling to be inducted into the Green lantern Corps made his appearance in Green Lantern number Zero, November issue. Like the four green lanterns before him he is human and male, but this new lantern is an Arab-American Muslim, John Stewart being the other lantern from a racialized group, he being African-American. I believe that Geoff Johns the writer of the Green Lantern has done a good job of writing this new green lantern. Unlike many writers who insert racialized characters into their books and write them as having no history, Johns has written Simon Baz the new green lantern, as a character with a past and how this past helps to make Baz into the character that he has become. Howard Winant talks about colourblindness or colourblind racism, and we can see the idea of colourblindness in much of the right wing policy in the United States and Canada. This stemming from the belief in a neoliberial post racial socity where everyone has the same opportunities, Charles Mills counters neoliberalism this with the concept of racial liberalism, which