You’re taking it too literally. They don’t mean “if transformed from turtles to humans, those humans would have black skin.” What they are trying to say is that the turtles are coded as culturally black teenagers. The way they speak, act, their interaction with their social context and relationships, some phrases they use…
Imagine for a second you’re watching Naruto, but they just replaced the guy with a frog. He is no longer a human, but still would eat at same food, stil would use the same colloquialisms, would follow and respect (or break) the same social rules imposes by his Japanese/Asian background, etc. He’d still be Japanese, just in a frog body now.
“Human form” is a poor word choice, but what makes us human is not the way we look, it’s the culture we’re part of and how we relate to it.
You’re taking it too literally. They don’t mean “if transformed from turtles to humans, those humans would have black skin.” What they are trying to say is that the turtles are coded as culturally black teenagers. The way they speak, act, their interaction with their social context and relationships, some phrases they use…
Imagine for a second you’re watching Naruto, but they just replaced the guy with a frog. He is no longer a human, but still would eat at same food, stil would use the same colloquialisms, would follow and respect (or break) the same social rules imposes by his Japanese/Asian background, etc. He’d still be Japanese, just in a frog body now.
“Human form” is a poor word choice, but what makes us human is not the way we look, it’s the culture we’re part of and how we relate to it.