...have always been a bit envious of her - she got to touch and be part of what I still consider to be a terribly important part of our history AND she aged well, sheesh. An awful shame that she had to go through the misery of leukemia...
At the last Crown, when we checked into our cabin, there was a basket with magazines on the coffee table. The cover of Time or Newsweek or somesuch had a picture of Obama on it, split in half from top to bottom, one half in black-and-white, one half in color, with some race-related topic (I think it was "will the economy trump race in the upcoming election").
Immediately thought back to the Bele and Loki episode of classic Trek. Didn't get played very often in reruns, but I thought as a kid and still do that it was painfully on-target. In high school, I dated a delightful and gifted young man from Harlem, and got a sharp taste of how people behave when the color of someone's skin does not match their own.
And classic Trek put the first interracial kiss on TV.
Not to mention Majel's performance as Number One in the Pilot!
On the one hand, I fear that those of us old enough to remember are, well, old. On the other, perhaps the current election is a signal that perhaps, maybe, possibly, just a bit, a smidgeon of prejudice has died.
Sigh...
At the last Crown, when we checked into our cabin, there was a basket with magazines on the coffee table. The cover of Time or Newsweek or somesuch had a picture of Obama on it, split in half from top to bottom, one half in black-and-white, one half in color, with some race-related topic (I think it was "will the economy trump race in the upcoming election").
Immediately thought back to the Bele and Loki episode of classic Trek. Didn't get played very often in reruns, but I thought as a kid and still do that it was painfully on-target. In high school, I dated a delightful and gifted young man from Harlem, and got a sharp taste of how people behave when the color of someone's skin does not match their own.
And classic Trek put the first interracial kiss on TV.
Not to mention Majel's performance as Number One in the Pilot!
On the one hand, I fear that those of us old enough to remember are, well, old. On the other, perhaps the current election is a signal that perhaps, maybe, possibly, just a bit, a smidgeon of prejudice has died.
Hopefully,
-N