Creepy ethical and racial undertones

Rating: 2/10 (16 April 2015)

Nevermind the story is up its own butt what with quantum gravitational arithmetic being communicated through time via 5D man-made singularity in MORSE CODE. No, we won't stop to talk about that; it's been thoroughly discussed here.
We're going to talk about how incredibly white and American the plan to save "the species" was from the beginning.
Plan B - Population Bomb.
Both doctors Brand walk us into a gene bank wherein Dr. Brand(F) lets us know the facility contains "5,000 fertilized eggs". Mud asks her how these babies are supposed to be raised. Dr. Brand goes on to describe the process: with the related equipment the first 10 eggs would be selected, processed and incubated and those children raised (by the founding settlers?). Then surrogacy such that within 30 years: "a colony of hundreds". She goes on to say that the real "difficulty" with colonization is "genetic diversity" at which point she pulls ONE CYLINDER filled with eggs out of a wall full of cylinders, opens it and gestures and goes, "this takes care of that." Okay.
The mission begins with 4 scientists and 1 ingenious Oki pilot. Natch, only one of them is black and he dies (albeit second) rather mysteriously. So from the start, the colonial settler(s) were going to be white. Having said that, the people responsible for selecting and processing the first 10 eggs, raising the first 10 children and successive children until surrogacy took over were going to be white.
Means nothing! ...Until you take into consideration that the space colony built by future 5D humans is populated... entirely... by white people. How did that happen?? Not a single Asian, African, Mid-Eastern or otherwise olive-skinned person appears in ANY of the scenes following that of the black scientist's death.
In fact, from the very beginning this movie was light on non-white people. While NASA's conference room thugs re-introduced themselves and gave Mud a rundown of the bravest people ever to live we see photos of the mission leaders - all of them white with the exception of a single Asian male.
Additionally, at the start of the film we watch Mud chase down an "Indian drone", hijack it and repurpose it despite the fact that he knew the Indian drone was "looking for something". NASA, perhaps?? Why didn't India know where they were? Weren't they in communication? Who else didn't know where NASA was, where the ship was or what NASA was planning with regard to saving "the species"?? Why wasn't this an international effort? It could still have been secret (and probably better funded!)
So now I'm left with questions. Where are all the non-white people in our 5D colonial future? I understand that the colony was likely built by earth humans who survived having applied the quantum data transmitted by Mud across time. This means these weren't the products of the population bomb. That's fine, but what... they just packed bags from the American mid-west and decided to name the colony Screaming Eagle 1 and the new planet when it's founded, New America?? What have I watched? A bid to save humanity driven by a handful of white scientists in the American Midwest excluding every other country on earth? This film thoroughly creeped me out in ways I still have difficulty articulating.