The next decade....what's in store?

Couldn't they have made Betty Applewhite and her family caucasian?

I heard the buzz about Desperate Housewives first season, so started watching it last year. Those of you who do, know that on Wisteria Lane, lives Mrs Betty Applewhite and her two sons, one of whom is mentally ill, broke into the Solices' house and made Gabrielle lose her baby.

Now last Sunday, the other son was caught necking with Bree's daughter. They're both teenagers. Miss Prissy Bree marked the necker and the neckee over to Mrs Applewhite's house to deposit her son, the necker. Mrs Applewhite promptly 'shot di bwoy a box' in his face.

It got me thinking that everything that has been portrayed about that family is quite negative. They are actually going to be leaving town. Lots of strange things have been happening to them and around them. And so I asked the question....couldn't the casting people and writers have made them a caucasian family???