Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4554525-20130918212334/@comment-17626299-20130921222632

Utter solitude wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism "Classically, token characters have some reduced capacity compared to the other characters and may have bland or inoffensive personalities so as to not be accused of stereotyping negative traits. Alternatively, their differences may be overemphasized or made "exotic" and glamorous."

The show has already been accused of trying to force diversity with Lancelot. Yes i understand, but that shouldn't stop them using multi racial actors to play iconic characters. And i love Lancelot being black, but obviously people would complain; as they are not use to seeing a black actor play a character which is traditionally known as white. But i think its the right way to go, the more often it happens the more people will get used to it.

This is like a convo i had with someon where they thought Dororthy should be played by someone who is black, i agreed but said it would probably cause a BIG unecessary hooh hah. As people are used to seeing Dorothy portrayed by doey eyed, copper haired Judy Garland.