Blackstar was originally supposed to be black.

So John Blackstar ended up being an Indian (native american),huh?

He looked just like the few years earlier animated Tarzan, who clearly was tanned from being out in the jungle so much.

Funny thing is, Green Lantern on Hanna Barbera's Challenge of the Superfriends was given a darker tan, and even with his straight brown hair, many children were apparently misled to believe he was a black man to some extent, because he was clearly darker than Superman or Batman when he would appear beside them.

No doubt, this further baffled things a couple of decades later when the new Justice League cartoon would indeed have an African-American (ah, political correctness) as Green Lantern, in the guise of the bald John Stewart, who actually had been Green Lanter for some time in the comic books by then.

It seems that there could very easily be a perception that the character was black whether the creators intended this or not.

Furthermore, I had discussions with two young black people who weren't aware that Storm on the Xmen cartoon was supposed to be black. Perhaps Halle Berry, half-white tho she may be, in the movies cleared that matter up.

With all the square-jawed heroes that these Schiemer cartoons turned out (I always just called them Filmation cartoons), such as Tarzan, Lone Ranger, He Man, Batman, animated Star Trek, I don't see what harm would come from one little black man in Blackstar.

It would have especially been interesting to see him with those little pink comedy relief dwarfs on there. Hated those guys.

UncleEntity: "He doesn't look Native American at all, maybe Indian or Mexican. Still, I like his look --- not Caucasian, definitely."
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After Kathy Coleman and Wesley Eure sported those Malibu tans on Land of the Lost, I always took it this was the same case for the animated John Blackstar; he was a native californian.