Date: 2013-01-13 11:46 am (UTC)
This (http://tigerbeatdown.com/2012/07/24/the-whitest-show-on-tv-11-statements-about-amcs-breaking-bad/) is a pretty good (albeit spoilery) discussion of Breaking Bad's problems with race. The issue isn't cultural appropriate (a rather bizarre criticism to make since just about every drug dealer on the show who isn't Walt is a PoC) but the near-absence of non-white people except as criminals (this is apparently especially egregious given the demographics of Albequerque), and even more than that, the way PoC are treated as disposable obstacles in Walt's path. There's a pair of characters in the third season, for example, who are basically inhuman - they have no thought, no feeling, no desire and no motivation except getting Walt, and they are literally taken apart on their way to him (which barely slows them down, since again, they're not human enough to care about themselves or each other). That level of dehumanization just doesn't exist for the white characters.

It's an excellent show, but its failure on this front leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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