Race and The Vampire Diaries

"This is the South, honey. But no one likes to reminisce about the old slave days." - Mayor Lockewood, Vampire Dairies

I’ve been watching a show call The Vampire Diaries all week on Netflix and the race politics hit me in the face. Pretty much all the vampires in this show are white, while almost all the African Americans are witches/warlocks. 

I think the problem does not lie in that there aren't many minority characters on the show (and there have been a select few) but all the black people are witches. It creates a distinction, and it's not necessarily against black people in my mind (unless you count witches as bad) but reinforces racism in general.

I'm just going to quote this part from the World English Dictionary:

Racism is "the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others"

Independently of the part about superiority, since I think that witches can have the upper hand but can also be subjected to following orders on their vampire friends.