"Oh EM GEE!!!! They are on to her!!!!"
The Yeerks have found out who she is and are trying to bring her name to the mud for losing their 'campaign' on Earth. HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY BE TRUE??
She stuffs ALL OF HER SERIES with characters with backgrounds and complexions of all sorts. At no point did I ever feel Cassie was disadvantaged. The person/Yeerk/Controller might be confusing Cassie for a weak character and chose a not very glorifying way to expressing indignity, not realizing that Cassie's anti-violent, tree-hugging, sentimental, sub-temporaly grounded self makes her one of the strongest characters, who has accomplished so much!
PS: That was sooo 'Marco'. A guy with a tissue paper in front of tidal wave?! LOL!!!