Voor buitenstaanders lijkt het er op dat nerd en geek culture hoofdzakelijk bestaat uit blanken mensen, maar niks is minder waar. Want in deze scene kent godzijdank veel verschillende nationaliteiten en natuurlijk huidskleur. Waarbij zelden of nooit gezeik is met racisme, omdat de wereld van ons geeks en nerds dit geen reet uitmaakt en onze helden in comics, films en TV series met alle culturen en afkomsten om kunnen gaan, iets waar de "echte wereld" nog een hoop van kan leren. Anyway, de website Topless Robot haalt met dit artikel tien donker gekleurde helden uit de geek culture aan. Waar onder RZA van de Wu-Tang Clan, en wist je trouwens dat de Nederlandse rapper Fresku een heuse comic geek is??

6. The RZA: AKA Bobby Digital AKA the Rapper With the Geek Flow

A rap persona made of equal parts New York streets, a seemingly endless record collection and a stint in the temples of Shaolin (by way of Times Square), the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan has been going strong in the worlds of hip hop, film, comics, and animation for over two decades.

The secret to the RZA can be found in the producer, The Scientist, the man who samples, twists, manipulates, and shapes his influences into something sharp, something new, and often, something just this side of strange. I'm gonna go ahead and credit him with the existence of other martial arts/rap mashups like Samurai Champloo and Afro Samurai and just dare you to try and convince me otherwise.

But instead of a confused blender approach, RZA, like any mad scientist, knows how to tap into the virtues of his monstrous creations' various pieces, how to give us something new with something old, and how to make us nod our heads (or at least lean forward) the first time he hits us with it. He makes house calls.

Sure, his first feature film effort was a bust, but The Man With the Iron Fists shows someone so deeply enmeshed in the alternate universe where kung fu and hip hop were born, that he had to put one of their movies on our screens.