"Sharon and Yvonne are Black Names" What? Lots of kids at my school were called those names, and there was not a single black face in the place ... I think in the days before there were so many channels on TV, a show could change things. There were only 2 or 3 channels when I was a kid, and EVERYONE watched a show called "Love Thy Neighbour" - a comedy about a white couple and a black couple living next door, and the white fellow was a racist, and the black fellow rose to it, and the two wives thought their husbands were idiots, and the white guy usually got made a fool of. I think this show did make a difference to some people. But these days, racists have a choice of TV viewing, and would just turn over.
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Date: 2018-10-04 07:59 am (UTC)I think in the days before there were so many channels on TV, a show could change things. There were only 2 or 3 channels when I was a kid, and EVERYONE watched a show called "Love Thy Neighbour" - a comedy about a white couple and a black couple living next door, and the white fellow was a racist, and the black fellow rose to it, and the two wives thought their husbands were idiots, and the white guy usually got made a fool of. I think this show did make a difference to some people. But these days, racists have a choice of TV viewing, and would just turn over.