One of the biggest things about Sci Fi that annoys the shyt out of me

[Cole Cash]

The way they tackle race or basically not tackle it at all. you basically have a bunch of different people of color who are black, or latino but really dont have much of an identity as such outside of maybe a few slang words here and there. They often depict race as no longer being an issue but they NEVER show you how they got there.

From a right wing perspective maybe everyone "just got over race" (lol yeah right) or the "lib" perspective everyone had incrimental changes and slowly came to terms with previous endeavors. People of color are still presented as "exotic" but the thing is, white power structure is still evident in nearly any SCI-FI movie, almost all the fukking people in power are white men. They never show you how the fukk we got there. This always fukking bothered me.

 

[killacal]

It's written produced and directed by white man

It's their POV

What do you expect

 

[Cole Cash]

It's written produced and directed by white man

It's their POV

What do you expect

I realize that, Im just posing the dilemma and how it could be addressed.

 

[Fillerguy]

Writers tend to write what they know. If you're raised in white lead society and have little personal experiences with non whites....

 

[ColdSlither]

If you want to see better representation then you have to read stuff by authors that ore POC. A white author who grew up around all whites, is going to write things from the point of view of a white power structure. It's all they know. Even if they are well meaning and have no ill will towards anyone.

 

[Jello Biafra]

The way they tackle race or basically not tackle it at all. you basically have a bunch of different people of color who are black, or latino but really dont have much of an identity as such outside of maybe a few slang words here and there. They often depict race as no longer being an issue but they NEVER show you how they got there.

From a right wing perspective maybe everyone "just got over race" (lol yeah right) or the "lib" perspective everyone had incrimental changes and slowly came to terms with previous endeavors. People of color are still presented as "exotic" but the thing is, white power structure is still evident in nearly any SCI-FI movie, almost all the fukking people in power are white men. They never show you how the fukk we got there. This always fukking bothered me.

It always struck me as odd that in stuff like Star Trek they never address issues of race among the "good guys" but will address it through some one off alien race they they encounter.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I believe in The Fifth Element the president of Earth or whatever was Deebo (Tommy Lister). But to the OPs point it sounds like there is a movie to be made on this subject ripe for the picking.

 

[Drew Wonder]

I'm actually working on a sci-fi script that tries to address this. If anyone wants to take a look, message me

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

The way they tackle race or basically not tackle it at all. you basically have a bunch of different people of color who are black, or latino but really dont have much of an identity as such outside of maybe a few slang words here and there. They often depict race as no longer being an issue but they NEVER show you how they got there.

From a right wing perspective maybe everyone "just got over race" (lol yeah right) or the "lib" perspective everyone had incrimental changes and slowly came to terms with previous endeavors. People of color are still presented as "exotic" but the thing is, white power structure is still evident in nearly any SCI-FI movie, almost all the fukking people in power are white men. They never show you how the fukk we got there. This always fukking bothered me.

Bright actually did a great job of addressing this. Good movie. It really should have been a show.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Star trek had a lot of stuff dealing with race & even had the first interracial kiss on television.

 

[ColdSlither]

Bright actually did a great job of addressing this. Good movie. It really should have been a show.

I liked Bright, I think it would have been better with a different director though. I totally agree that it should have been a show.

 

[ColdSlither]

It always struck me as odd that in stuff like Star Trek they never address issues of race among the "good guys" but will address it through some one off alien race they they encounter.

The thing with Star Trek you have to assume that they are mostly past all of that. There are episodes that deal with it but were in the past like in Deep Space Nine. In general, they dealt with the Eugenics Wars in the 90's. The Bell Riots which take place in 2024 and reflect what is currently happening in the world now. And then World War III which happens two years later and until the 2050's. So it's not addressed because they're better than that now.