OK but they almost certainly wanted a black person on cast for that show to push a social agenda that "color is only skin deep".
I'm no Star Trek fan, and I don't know about their motivation for this casting. However, it makes more sense for there to be black characters in a show about the distant future than it does in one about medieval Europe. Presumably, blacks didn't go extinct, so they're still out there somewhere.
Does anyone really believe that color is only skin deep anymore?
Color itself is skin-deep. It's not the color creating any differences, like lactose intolerance.
Every era's Star Trek pushes the "progressive" ideas of it day. And TNG is still my favorite show that I still watch all the time, but I recognize it for what it is: propaganda for a previous era, no longer relevant.
I liked Captain Planet when I was an impressionable kid. Obviously, I now recognize it as pretty blatant environmentalist propaganda.
Color itself is skin-deep. It's not the color creating any differences, like lactose intolerance.
No, it's all the other genetics that accompany said color that influence behavior, but let's not sit here and pretend that they are decoupled from one another.
I'm no Star Trek fan, and I don't know about their motivation for this casting. However, it makes more sense for there to be black characters in a show about the distant future than it does in one about medieval Europe. Presumably, blacks didn't go extinct, so they're still out there somewhere.
Color itself is skin-deep. It's not the color creating any differences, like lactose intolerance.
I liked Captain Planet when I was an impressionable kid. Obviously, I now recognize it as pretty blatant environmentalist propaganda.
No, it's all the other genetics that accompany said color that influence behavior, but let's not sit here and pretend that they are decoupled from one another.
Genetics may vary between all the groups within a color though.