"I'm so sick of them making everything politically correct!"

"What next? A hero in a wheelchair?"

Yes, indeedy. Approximate comments from forum posters in Heroes first season and I would say they're shocking, at least to me, but there was a lot of "Here, here!"s when they were said. I can't explain what it's like to be a minority, but if you're one of the majority, I don't think anything I say is going to help you reconcile that paradigm anyway. It has to be an active imgaitive leap of faith.

Having minorities visible, present and participating in significant plots is important not to Hollywood, or America, but the world. I don't want to hear excuses that if it's an American show it should cateer to the happy medium masses of America. America can't be that... awkward? self-involved? Oh wait, here comes Americanized versions of successful British, Spanish and Australian shows.

Last time I checked America wasn't America without the contribution (or rather appropriation) of different culture, different people. Maybe as a city gal, I'm somewhat biased. I haven't grown up in area where most people are visually familiar, but I don't think it matters. Not all of America is white, middle-cla$$ males. Did it bother anyone else on Friends that it took Joey and Ross 8 years to run into a black girl in a metorpolis like New York City?

Feh.

What's even more important is that the representations of minorities resists stereotypes. I mean that's probably what made/makes Gilmore Girls' Lane, Family Matters' Urkel, or even Ellen more memorable. Golden Girls, George Lopez show any one? They feed a collective mind options, images. I mean that's not to discount those that don't resist. But I am looking forward to the day when I don't have to read that certain characters aren't ___(Latin/gay/fill in minority adjectivey word here)__ enough.

Blah, at this point I'm rambling. I mean if I wasn't before

BTW, Heroes hater! XAVIER!

I figured I'd make my first post "mean" something - at least to me.