Now, let’s think about this for a moment. The island is full of white people. And I can’t recall any black people among the Others either (I don’t use African-American because the Others are clearly not American so it wouldn’t fit.)
But what of the minorities on the Island:
Hurley – an overweight, lazy Latino who used to work at a fast food joint and got rich by playing the lottery
Sayid – the Middle Easterner who used to fight for the Republican Guard in Iraq and (still) tortures people
Jin and Sun – Koreans with ties to the Asian mob
Michael – a lowly construction worker who can’t keep his marriage together (and has been written out of the show)
Mr. Eko – an African druglord
Ana Lucia – a hot-tempered Latina police officer who murders a man
Here’s another tidbit. Yunjim Kim, who plays Sun, originally auditioned for the role of Kate. But was made the daughter of a Korean mob boss instead.
The shows creators – J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffery Lieber – are all white. This is in stark contrast to another ABC show, Grey’s Anatomy, which has a great diverse cast, and also was created by an African-American woman.
Granted that all the characters on the island have their fallacies, it seems like the minorities draw on stereotypes and are more severe than other characters.
Still, there is one minority character that seems to be strong and pure, and that’s Rose. But Rose has disappeared this entire season. The writers and producers don’t view her as a priority. Perhaps she is just too good to be shown, which would be a shame.
But apparently she will return in the last two episodes of the season. Does that mean Rose is pregnant too? She, incidentally, is the only plane crash survivor never to have contact with the Others. Sounds like somebody is due. (Get it?)
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You forgot about Ms. Clue (the Other from the dock that someone shot later on) Remember her? She was black! Dude.. get your facts straight. ;)
Oh come on, lets keep your summaries going with the white people:
Jack: uses drugs (and his father an alcoholic)
Kate: is a murderer
Sawyer: murderer, con man, stereotyical "white trash"
Locke: murdering wack-job
Ben: scary murderer, lets the ship explode
that aussie couple: conmen / murderers
I can go on all day--Rose is indeed the only good character
well they just killed the last minorities, the island is only left with white people.
wtf they killed sayid, jin and sun all in the same episode!
Well... now the only good guys are white... killed off iraqi Sayid, korean couple Jin and Sun, and Michael... that might seem a bit racist that only white folk survived...
And now, with the series finale, we apparently know that only the white people made it into the Lost "Sideways Universe" heaven. What's up with that?
Okay, okay. Yes. Hugo was Latino.
That's the only one I'll give them.
Oops. I apologize. Sayid made it into "Sideways Heaven" So maybe Lost only has something against black people.
Why didn't Michael, Walt, and Mr Echo make it into heaven?
Every other character was guilty of murder and yet they made it in. (even Hurley who ran over some others with the Dharma Bus.)
And the chief villain of the series was BLACK smoke. Kind of makes you wonder the motivations of the writers, whether conscious or otherwise.
Srsly ppl. How the hell could Lost be racist if they've got a priest, an Iraqi guy, a fat guy, a black guy, an Australian, a british, a scottish and much more. Where the hell did Ana Lucia come from? And all the "white" people, or american ppl, they've got a whole damn story behind them. You should call the other series for racist, like Prison Break. They haven't got any of these I wrote above. Why aint you thinkin before writin?
And oh yeah, Korean too. Let's face it, everyone died. How many lived? The Vietnamese guy, Miles, Sawyer, and Kate. Hurley is fat, if he died, then it maybe would've been racist. Jin and Sun were meant to die. How many white people died? Srsly guys..
They called it THE BLACK SMOKE because it was black! If they'd said THE WHITE SMOKE, wouldn't THAT be racist? Last time I checked, it was black. Ain't you thinking that Lost made all these characters of different countries so that they wouldn't be called racist or anything that relates to it? And still... ppl are calling them that.
Lost is incredibly racist. 90% of the poc who died never made it to their heaven and they were all stereotypically depicted according to their race. The only Muslim character knowing terrorists?? Please . While all the white characters did have shortcomings, theirs were shown to be forgivable and all of them were concluded to be good pepole
Lost is incredibly racist. 90% of the poc who died never made it to their heaven and they were all stereotypically depicted according to their race. The only Muslim character knowing terrorists?? Please . While all the white characters did have shortcomings, theirs were shown to be forgivable and all of them were concluded to be good pepole
A lot of the racism from "LOST" came from the series' fandom. Many of them were willing to forgive the shortcomings and crimes of white characters - especially Kate Austen, Sawyer Ford and even John Locke. But when it came to the POC characters only Sun and Jin Kwon, along with Sayid Jarrah were forgiven, due to them being a part of the status quo. Nor did they harm - intentionally or not - any of the other castaways. Shannon Rutherford tried to murder John Locke. Jack Shepherd tried to murder Locke. Locke knocked Sayid out cold before the latter could set up his communication system and inadvertently caused Boone Carlyle's death. Then you have Kate Austen who murdered her biological father for selfish reasons, yet fans pretended she did it to save her abused mother. She did not. They forgave Sawyer Ford for his three counts of cold-blooded murder on and off the island, giving him rather shady excuses. They loved Mr. Eko, because he had played up to their cliche of the "badass" black man.
But when it came to the likes of Michael Dawson and Ana-Lucia, the fans were consistently negative toward them. They were not worse than the other characters. But they did not live up to their expectations of what the POC characters were supposed to be . . . or they didn't follow the status quo.
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