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In both film and television, the character has been whitewashed and reimagined as Abraham Whistler.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Nelson Peltz, who has ten children, reportedly spent over $2,000,000 on the barmitzvah of his twin sons in 2016 and is a significant patron for Jewish causes in the US and Israel.
Both Beckham and Peltz have Jewish heritage through their fathers....although Nelson's wife, former model Claudia Heffner, never converted to Judaism, he is a "devout Jew."
In the comics, Jamal is Black, but in the 1998 feature adaptation of "Blade" starring Wesley Snipes, the character was renamed Abraham Whistler and cast with white actor Kris Kristofferson.