My point is that the white liberals who are behind shows of this kind tokenized the James Olsen character; he was there only to be "different", yet the showrunners had no intention--actually a damn responsibility to present and explore what it meant for Olsen as a black male in that environment, which is completely removed from his association to others with their own identity concerns. All the showrunners did was have Olsen spout off endless support for every other belief/cause (in some cases, as if there was any sort of suggested equivalency) but he was never written to "go deep" on the identity/experiences that a black man in the news media, in basic life, and the fictional side of superhero business has to endure. One scene of a black kid recognizing James as the Guardian, or his (James) Judging Amy script rip was weak and illustrated just how unimportant this black male character was to a series that trumpets the endless details of other groups--but not his.
I've seen this kind of tokenized mistreatment in entertainment for decades, and there's no excuse for it, especially on a 21st century series like this one. He was flavor--not substance, which, in the grand scheme of it all, I found extremely offensive. Since Brooks was cast as Olsen, they could have used as much of the comic source's life as they desired, but change the essential part, so that the comic character would be represented, but again, his essence reroutes the comic history, taking it in a new direction always tied to who he is, which is not uncommon to comic characters, as seen at the dawn of the Silver Age, and in any of the reimagined / alternate characters which has a continued presence in comic lore.
Again, that did not happen,, and four seasons and four episodes in, Olsen was shuffled off with another throwaway story, and one not doing anything to build on the crucial, worldview-directing specifics of his life.
Indeed, I remind you that most of the time, journalists from big to modest newspapers/magazines who tried to condemn publicly the uses of certain influential people in town were killed (cf to the 80 journalists who were killed in 2018 in real life) or if lucky, had to put the key under the door and be forced to leave with their families so much the said corruption intrinsically linked politicians, police, justice and even medias.
It was also the case with Lena & Winn. I can't wait to see him returning to National City! 
