Final tally in this incredibly unscientific poll is about a 60/40 split with the majority not knowing EB wasn't Black. I don't know why this happened. USUALLY it's the other way around. People usually forget a POC character is POC rather than imaginging a white one as such. https://twitter.com/aaron_radney/status/1326970250764689411

Now I just want a reboot where he IS Black just to validate people's perception but have him be a public defender's kid or something rather than the head of police's kid the way I remember him being in some of the books. Like, constantly embarassing the PD because he catches...

all the basic easy stuff they miss by not understanding basic facts about things. I literally want grown cops being told by a like 10 year old Black kid, "that's not how that works. That's not what that means, and that information was debunked a decade ago."