Semba has picked up two comic relief friends who have interesting voices, but are ethnic ciphers. The only black characters left from the beginning of the movie are Semba's mother and Whoopi Goldberg's hyena. The score now, three non-white characters out of nine. Now, before people start calling me quota king, let me say here that the numbers are not really important. At most, they are a rhetorical device.
New characters come in.
The story goes on. Fine, I can accept that. What concerns me more is the attitude behind the changes. In the same way, Clarence Thomas being black does not mean anything. That Thomas's skin color should mean more than his qualifications or political viewpoints is an insult not only to the constituency that he is supposed to appease, but also to the court itself.