We are nothing, if not inconsistent.Racial diversity has been a talking point in America since it’s conception. In today’s pop culture, the lack of racial diversity often muses up article after scholarly article. Take HBO’s “Entourage,” for example. The show features an almost all-white cast. After some criticism, it finally introduced a black character — a rapper named Saigon. There’s also the question of diversity of the sexes. HBO’s show about four females,”Sex & the City,” has a show about four males, “Entourage.” “Friends” has three men and three women, etc. Some shows actively strive to create diversity, including “Scrubs,” which casts a black best friend and his Hispanic wife as counterparts to Zach Braff’s almost incessant whiteness.It’s interesting when our national consciousness decides to care about racial diversity and when it doesn’t seem to notice. Take our president, for example. In the election before this one, racial diversity in the White House wasn’t an issue of national consciousness. Sure, many folks were wondering if we would ever see a non-white president, but it wasn’t a national talking point until Barack Obama ran for president. The same can be said for Gov. Bobby Jindal: Before his candidacy, no one complained that an Indian-American was never governor.This can be expected, but it still seems hypocritical.So it’s interesting when such a large-budget film like “Watchmen” is released without a speckle of racial diversity (save for a stereotypically Asian gang that gets thoroughly beaten). And as for diversity of sex, the two most  prominent female characters seem more interesting in taking off their tops than in anything else.Yet no one cared.Most reviewers didn’t mention this as a problem in the way “Entourage” was seen as racist and sexist when it was first released.And maybe it isn’t a problem.Perhaps I’m reaching here.But there’s a far simpler reason than equal representational for all peoples. While that should be the main point, a secondary issue in having a completely Arian, male, flat cast is it gets boring.Repetition tends not to be interesting.Repetition tends not to be interesting.Repetition tends not to be interesting.Diversity will always make for more interesting cinema, fiction, music, art, whatever. The tension in the differences and the ease in the commonalities between races and genders is what creates for interesting storytelling.But it almost seems like a dead art. And “Watchmen” proved this.Because even if a film doesn’t have a racially uniform cast, it usually just plays into simple (and boring) stereotypes. When was the last time you saw a cop movie that didn’t feature either a black/white partnership or a white underling and a black commander? These staples have become so ingrained, movies are losing their creativity under the stresses of either satisfying racial diversity or ignoring it.Either way, film is suffering.Of course, this isn’t the only reason film is suffering, but it certainly is a strong one. Laziness remains the main reason it suffers, and this issue is a direct offshoot of laziness.Having an all-one-race cast almost ensures one audience or another, but it also often alienates another.But laziness is a staple of American culture, so I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.Travis Andrews is a 21-year-old English senior from Metairie.——Contact Travis Andrews at [email protected]