Presenting the Battle Kata Roadblock from the second series of the GI Joe Retaliation Toy line.I remember the series 1 Roadblock from the same line and I remember thinking... "He's soooo..... white!" And I really did not understand why the son of a Black Nova Scotian and a rich brown Samoan would agree to have his skin represented as white. And I bashed this fact when I reviewed the GI Joe Retaliation Ninja Dojo Set.
I was so bothered by what I considered racisim that I actually tweeted the Great One.
Clearly someone must have heard me as now the GI Joe Battle Kata Roadblock has a nice brown skin tone that's closer to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's.
I'm also not sure why, when or how Roadblock, the GI Joe machinegunner, became a ninja, but I doubt if this is anything more than a marketing gimmick.
