Muse on VAMPIRE DIARIES: Vampires Are White, Witches Are Black

Or so "The Vampire Diaries" teaches us...

Casting white actors as Vampires makes some visual sense, since it fits with the majority of our culture's origin myths on immortal blood sucking monsters (plus it is easier to make a white guy look like Robert Pattinson). But it makes a lot less sense that the only black characters we have seen so far on "The Vampire Diaries" are all witches - unless it turns out that bartender-in-Atlanta Bree (Gina Torres) is Bonnie's mother.

In general, it would be nice if the CW threw more than just a token minority into any of their shows. There are all kinds of moral and business-sense reasons for having more diverse casts on television. But, if it turns out that Bree IS Bonnie's mother, the biggest reason it would have been good for "The Vampire Diaries" to cast a couple more non-white actors is so the plot twist wouldn't have been so incredibly obvious.