It still amazes me when I see a someone from the entertainment industry, whether it’s from Hollywood, music, or comic books, apologize for something they didn’t need to apologize for. Jason Aaron, is a comic book writer who has written for both Marvel and DC Comics, as well as independently publishing his own works, and he’s being cancelled. Aaron is being cancelled on Twitter for his use of the name Matoaka in his mini series King Conan, specifically issue #3, and its association with the real Pocohontas. In issue #3 of King Conan, in which Matoaka makes her first appearance, she has a dark and troubled past, and is described as a supernatural princess of a cursed island. Sounds just like any other formidable hero or villain in the Marvel Universe who has a chip on their shoulder. Aaron was cancelled for unintentionally using the same name associated with Pocohontas, who herself had a troubled and violent past. This of course brought the unfettered ire of the Twitterverse, which tried to pin the sins of the past onto a comic book writer just trying to make a good story. Jason Aaron should have just said no to the Twitter mob.
Aaron’s princess Matoaka character is no Relation to the Real Pocohontas
Twitter, and those that use it to get people cancelled are a cancer on this world. The Twitter mobs think they are righteous, when in fact they are just a bunch of cowards hiding behind a phone to make such “bold” statements of racism and discrimination. Jason Aaron had no intentions of offending anyone with his story about a supernatural princess that happened to be named Matoaka. He said so himself in a statement.
“In KING CONAN #3, I made the ill-considered decision to give a character the name of Matoaka, a name most closely associated with the real-life Native American figure, Pocahontas. This new character is a supernatural, thousand-year-old princess of a cursed island within a world of pastiche and dark fantasy and was never intended to be based on anyone from history. I should have better understood the name’s true meaning and resonance and recognized it wasn’t appropriate to use it.”
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo is Gaslighting
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo, a writer herself, and who is also Native Haudenosaunee, had a problem with Aaron’s character of Matoaka, and lambasted and outright accused Aaron of violence against the Native American community. Gaslighting anyone?
“this is active violence against us and our community. the sexualization of a real young girl that was r*ped and killed young affects our murdered & missing indigenous women TODAY. you are backwards, sick, and should donate every penny you earned creating this to #MMIW”
D’Angelo has inflamed this situation so much, that she actually had others on Twitter thinking that the Matoaka in Jason Aaron’s King Conan, is actually Pocohontas. You can’t make this stuff up. Give her credit though, she’s managed to inflame an issue so much that she’s falsely creating this narrative that there’s rampant racism at Marvel Comics. She also blaming all the hands that this issue went through before it hit the stands. Again, why does that even matter. Obviously everyone at Marvel thought this new character, and the story around it, was a good well written story, and that’s it. I’m not one to defend Marvel often, because I think their wounds are often self-inflicted, but this story of a supernatural princess had nothing to do with the historical figure of Pocohontas. D’Angelo might think she’s garnering attention for a cause, when in reality, she’s just displaying what Americans are sick and tired of hearing about. People getting canceled because another party was offended at something they read, watched, or witnessed. Get over it and move on if you don’t like it, and stop cancelling hard working Americans who just want to create and earn a paycheck. You’re boring us.
Apologizing to the Lunatics on the Left Never Works
You should never apologize too these maniacs, because once you do, they own you, and will make you bend the knee and capitulate to any of their demands. Jason Aaron is now beholden to the righteous Twitterverse, and will probably not be able to escape. Just say no to the accusations when you know they are not true. The mob will go away at some point. These people spend so much time on Twitter complaining how their voices are not being heard, yet they work in industries that pay them very well. Was that because of their talent or because of their diverse background? I hope it was because of their talent, because if the latter is true, just like Kelly Lynne D’Angelo requires, then your work just becomes empty and shallow. Just maybe, their opportunities were given to them because they still live in the freest country on the planet. I’m betting they were, and from a country that is always learning from its past mistakes. People like D’Angelo can hate or like content all day everyday, less they forget we are still in a free country with a first amendment. Punishing and gaslighting people for things that happened hundreds of years ago, only serves to push us further backwards rather than forwards.
