Black Jimmy Olsen

Black Jimmy Olsen sounds like a rap duo of like Mos Def and Ed Sheeran.
Black Jimmy Olsen sounds like a silver age bizzaro opposite.
But Black Jimmy Olsen is one of the best characters on CW's Supergirl.
Jimmy Olsen has classically always looked like Archie Andrews.
He's Superman's Pal, awkward and geeky and disaster prone.
But that was the white version.
At first I didn't like Mechad Brooks' casting.  This would be a big buff sexy underwear model version of Jimmy Olsen, oh and he's smooth and cooler than Barack Obama.
At first he was into Supergirl, as was the nerdy white Winn aka Toyman Jr.
So we still had a geeky semi-Jimmy if we needed.
This new big buff black Jimmy seemed like the obvious choice for Supergirl. I hated it.
Oh and he didn't like "Jimmy" - now he was "James".  The maturization of Archie Andrews? What!
A Black Betty and Veronica sounds great.  Black Jughead or Reggie Mantle might be problematic.
But a black Archie?  But then I remembered that originally Archie was supposed to be the Cool idea of a kid, in a band, has girls and friends and popularity and is supposedly hot enough for Betty and Veronica who are the two baddest chicks in Riverdale. (Interestingly the CW show Riverdale would come out on the heels of this version of Archie Jimmy).
So in today's world it makes sense that "James" Olsen is buff and black and bangin  pause..
There are a couple Black Supermans and the concept works perfectly. He feels alien. Heroic.  Black Flash's wife is hawt, Black Wally West is great, the Flash show works tremendously, yet they still went with a white Flash.  Black Green Lantern has a lot of history yet they still went with white Hal Jordan instead of John Stewart when the movie was greenlit.
In the most recent season, he is no longer into Supergirl Like That, and instead is romantically involved with the beautifully pale white Lena Luthor.  Both are successful and attractive and intelligent and confident.  Ship-worthy.  And Supergirl's eventual beau Mon-El would be played by her real life boyfriend who is a white dude and is great.
James Olsen would eventually take on the mantle of The Guardian who was a white guy way back when as one might expect, but also in the 90's was a black dude who is awesome.  So the arc worked out for all involved for the best.  And Black Jimmy Olsen became the most likeable character ever.
Would a White Black Lightning work though?  NO!  We will see how they do Lightning Lad soon..