Fyrcyning wrote:

This is one of the X-books that underlines the "racial awareness" aspect of being a mutant. Instead of just using it as a story element, whole story arcs rotate around it. The thing had already been beaten to death by previous writers, it is becoming a major case of dead horse flogging (maybe it was just Casey's Church of Humanity nonsense that killed the horse in question).

Thing is, that's the central premise behind the X-books: the fear of mutants as "other" and their roles as outsiders. If you do away with it, what do the X-Men become? Just your regular, standard-mill superhero team. That's like saying Batman should just get over his parents' deaths and get married. You do that (even though there's a part of me that wishes this would happen as well) and you lose the one thing that separates him from other heroes.

Besides, it's not as if racism has gone away in the real world, despite all the education, publicity, etc. We're still dealing with it so why wouldn't the theme of "racial awareness" as it applies to mutants still be predominant in comics?