The director of the ratings
board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) told the Associated Press that violence by comic - book characters represents «a less realistic kind of violence that's neither graphic nor brutal,» and so, by implication, is less
harmful to children
than R - rated movie violence.
These are not trends that ought to be encouraged in a state that is already, as are most schools in the US, plagued with
harmful segregation that is worse
than it was prior to Brown v.
Board.