A personal theory of mine is that the writing staff of the ABC series LOST, rather than presenting a supposed multicultural utopia, actually have it in for the Black Man (and Woman). Last night’s episode “Enter 77″ demonstrated yet again that if a character is black, he or she is marked for eventual death.
Let’s go back to original cast: included among the main survivors is an African-American father and son, Michael (Harold Perrineau, Jr.) and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley); and a black woman, Rose (L. Scott Caldwell) as a supporting survivor. Walt is kidnapped at the end of the first season, and ultimately, after being reunited in the second season finale, Michael and son sail off into the sunset. Rose makes scattered appearances during the first season, gets a flashback episode during the second season, but hasn’t shown up since.
Introduced at the start of the second season is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as former-warlord/faux-priest Mister Eko, heralded as a new direction for the series, bringing a mystical counterpoint to Terry O’Quinn’s character of John Locke. But a year later, yet again, Mr. Eko is killed off abruptly (at apparently, Triple-A’s request)– leaving nary a black character to be seen among the survivors.
Now the only non-white “Other”, Bea Klugh (April Grace), last seen at the end of the second season, makes a sudden reappearance, and just as sudden death.
All I gotta say is that Rose better watch her back.
