"This is sand. It represents desert."

I'm so excited about the 4th of July Twilight Zone marathon on SciFi. This year, the network (which will become SyFy on July 7) is airing episodes from the 1985 series.

Below is my favorite episode from the third Twilight Zone incarnation, "A Message from Charity", starring James Cromwell, best known by me for his work in Babe:

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Sci Fi becomes 'Syfy'...sigh., Entertainment Weekly.

Even SCI-FI Channel Embarrassed To Admit It Watches SCI-FI Channel; Changes Name To "Syfy", Best Week Ever.

Sci Fi Channel rebranding itself as Syfy. What's next?, Canada.com. International representation!

Note to Sci Fi parent company NBC Universal: Don't change the name of one of your most recognizable networks to an abbreviation for an STD. I didn't think anyone could appear less clever than the writers of Britney's latest single, but Sci Fi President Dave Howe has done it. Congratulations. You now look more attention-seeking and desperate than the creators of a song called "If You Seek Amy."

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I've addressed this question multiple times,

but some people can't take "institutionalized racism" as an answer:

Why is the Universe full of White people? by the angry black woman.

...maybe SciFi channel just sucks ass. I think that might be the case.

What else can you say about a network that allowed the guy who made the Earthsea movie turn all of the people white except for that one guy? On Stargate the black people are all slaves, but the white people might be slaves or they might be rulers or they might be accountants. On Atlantis they gathered together scientists and military folks from countries all over the world, and yet the only person of color from Earth is the one military guy. All of the other black folks come from another galaxy. From backwards, tribal planets no less. Oh, except for that one Asian chick in that one episode...

...it’s very easy for those who don’t have to think about race (read: white men) to say that ethnic minorities should stop counting how many ethnic minorities are represented in the media they watch (not to mention how they are represented) and just enjoy the fact that there are some. That’s just ignorant, people. Ignorant.

White, heterosexual men have the luxury of being able to turn to 99% of the channels beamed into their TVs and see themselves portrayed in a manner that makes them comfortable and happy. Most white women, do, too. Minorities of most any stripe do not have that luxury. This is especially true of ethnic minorities. Why do we ‘bean count’? Because we can. That’s not flippancy, that’s a fact. I can look at my TV and count the number of black people I see because there are so few of them and they tend to stand out in the sea of whiteness. I’m getting sick of it, myself. How about the rest of you?

I will continue to address the rest of the comments (Thank you, readers!) in the section under my previous post, Don't ask, don't tell....