True Blood and Race

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True Blood is not a perfect show when it comes to race. 100 years from now, no one will be impressed. But relative to most of television, it's doing well enough to merit mention: it sails past the POC Bedchel test every episode without even trying, by virtue of several deep, interesting, well written black characters (I'm on season 4, there's a new Hispanic character but it's a bit early to call him 'well characterized'). And while it doesn't make you think about racism very often, it does make it abundantly clear that this is a luxury the minority characters do not have- and that a lot of it is coming from people who white characters would never think to question.