User blog:Thewritersdiary/Something That Bothers Me

I recently stumbled across a video on Youtube and generally I try to stay out of the comments section so I can avoid the people looking for a fight, but this time I saw something that just really bothered me. One youtuber thought that it would be a good idea to accuse "The 100" of being a racist show, one part because it only features white actors and actresses, and secondly because they "killed off all the black characters".

First of all, "The 100" I've thought has always had a reasonably diverse cast. If you even look at the Comic-Con panel for 2015, only one actor on the panel was even white: Eliza Taylor. Everyone else had varying ethnicities. Ricky Whittle and Isaiah Washington are of African-American descent; Lindsey Morgan is Irish and Mexican; Bob Morley has a Filipino mother; and contrary to popular belief, Marie Avgeropoulos is Greek. And if you look at the show, there is also Monty, Miller and his dad, Indra, Emori, Jones, as well as Anya, Wells, Connor, Dr. Tsing, Callie Cartwig, and a number of other roles to be certain who are of different heritages (other than American). The person making that comment was completely misinformed.

And the whole idea that the writers of "The 100" want to kill off every African-American character is ridiculous. Jaha has his own storyline on the show, for goodness sake. And no one can argue against the fact that Lincoln is a much-loved character among the fans and with the cast, too. And let's not forget Indra, who absolutely kicks ass! Plus, Wells was, for a brief time, an important character as well. He wasn't killed because of his race; it wouldn't have mattered whether he was white or hispanic or anything else - that wouldn't change the things that happened with his character. The only other person of the mentioned ethnicity that died that I can think of was Connor, who was also killed alongside Myles. And he wasn't killed off for that reason, either. He was killed because Murphy was seaking revenge and he happened to be part of the bargain.

Sorry for rambling on a bit there, but this needed to be said. People will continue to make accusations at "The 100" and the CW and I know that these few paragraphs won't make much of a difference but I wanted to put in my two cents.