Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-4802762-20140722222753

"The black characters just show up and dissapear and then show up again and dissapear again."

That's assuming the character was written to be black in the first place. Most of the "black" characters were not originally written just to be black characters. A lot of them were just characters whose actors just happened to be black. You get what I mean? Like, when the character was originally written, there was no designated race. The actor that was chosen to play them just happens to black.

The case is different for gay people. The actors that played them are (more often than not) not gay. The character was already written to be gay and with a specific role—to draw in more gay viewers.