@Seelix I think we’re in agreement here. I just wanted to point out that what you were discussing is not racism.
@SmashTheState Going through your three characters… (spoiler alert)
(1) Indeed they did have a black guy trying to kill the white leader. But, they also portrayed him as being betrayed by said white leader several years beforehand. Indeed, they showed him as having been subject to years of capture, etc… which in large part led to him going insane. Hardly a poor portrayal of black people. In fact, I’d go so far as to say this episode portrays Adama in a worse light.
(2) Who are you talking about here? I don’t remember this scene… but I do remember that there were a lot of collaborators with the secret police on New Caprica and many of them were portrayed poorly.
(3) But she’s often right. If I’m not mistaken, they also had a number of other priests of different races throughout the show. Anyway, she hardly has magical powers. Instead, she mostly connects whats happening to the scared scrolls.
In addition, almost no character is displayed without severe mental and moral problems throughout the show. Everyone in that show has a dark side and the worse comes out of them. But, one of the characters who I think comes out looking the best is Dualla. Up until her death, she is shown has a strong character who does this well. She is critical to the success of almost every dogfight in the show and is a trusted member of the team. Sure she does some bad things, but as I said, I’m hard pressed to think of a major character who doesn’t.
I don’t think BSG portrayed its black characters much worse than its other characters. Everyone comes out looking pretty horrible in that show. Of course, if you focus on which black characters get shown in a negative or stereotypical light, you’ll find things that are disagreeable. That doesn’t mean, however, that the show displayed its black characters in more negative a light than any others.