>>So no black characters can ever be killed on a tv show? I
>>think you're making too much of this.
>
>My issue isn't with killing black characters. I think it just
>reflect that black lives are somewhat devalued on television.
>I just don't think that they would have glossed over a white
>chick getting stabbed in the back by one of the "good guys".
>We will never know though because It's one of those
>hypothesises that I will never be able to test (therefore I
>don't really push the issue).

I could understand that if only Black characters have been killed off on this show but that hasn't been the case. Plenty of characters have been killed off on this show.


>
>>
>>Do I think Micheal was written badly? Yes, but I don't think
>>it was a racial thing. The fact that they hired a kid about
>>to or going through puberty on a show where ever episode was
>>only supposed to be a day or two shows they didn't think
>some
>>things through.
>
>
>I am saying that the poor writing for michael is racial, but
>not racist, because white writers have a hard time writing for
>black characters. Its not racist because they don't have a
>mal intent, but it is racial because its relevant to his
>race.

My main problem with this is what really made Mike and Walt "Black" characters anyway? If they would have used White actors for Mike and Walt would anything they had done been written differently?

Shaun G.