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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 3355207" data-attributes="member: 42169">Yeah, but I think *thats* the problem.  Right now 24 is already in the dog house with human rights groups over torture (so much that the producers went public saying that they are lessening the use of torture).  But now it is almost like they are giving the bad message about the survivability of a black president that refuses to use racist tactics to secure order (unlike the rest of his administration who joined the lynch mob early in hour one).Its kind of strange how even though many terrorists in 24 were islamic this season's white house is all about the racial issues.  This surprises me since race never seemed to be in the foreground when the original President Palmer was president or even during season 4's terrorist attacks.  Yet, it becomes an issue once 12 weeks go by during which there have been terrorists attacks (even though as pointed out, the first attack seen on screen was perpetrated by an asian).I have a feeling that the white house would not be so overtly racist in this season if they knew that the Bauer family was in part responcible for the attrocities of the day.</blockquote>