Talk:Steven Universe: Art & Origins/@comment-3552681-20170718144239

Well. It appears the Crewniverse had themselves a little bit of an oopsie-doodle with a cartoon doodle.

Hopefully the second edition only scrubs out the "Can't Read" part rather than the entire existance of Concrete.

First off, she doesn't give off that who "Mammy" appearance. Secondly, at least she didn't have some kind of racist name to go with it. For all we know, this could have been a Bismuth prototype because during the brainstorming process, they wanted a character that was black or grey. Maybe an "Obsidian" character but instead settled on Bismuth because of its iridescent apperance.

The Crewniverse tried very hard to include more characters of color in the series. The Pizza Family, Smokey Quartz, even Garnet to some degree. Some characters get used during brain stoming, others don't. That's part of the process of worldbuilding.