It’s been a long time since I saw the show (when it first aired!) but obviously it was good enough for me to remember it fairly well 30-something years later. I recall that the white jocks spray painting the word on the character’s car was prompted by an escalating argument over something else. That felt much more realistic than these days, where it would just be a bunch of racist whites running around trying to terrorize blacks unprovoked. Also, the show made a point of how even the black characters had prejudices. At one point, both the whites and blacks are locked up (jail cell? campus holding?) and one of the blacks accosts the (white) cop (campus security) as being racist. At that point the cop shut him down by saying that he marched for black rights in the 60’s. You definitely don’t see that sort of thing these days.
It’s been a long time since I saw the show (when it first aired!) but obviously it was good enough for me to remember it fairly well 30-something years later. I recall that the white jocks spray painting the word on the character’s car was prompted by an escalating argument over something else. That felt much more realistic than these days, where it would just be a bunch of racist whites running around trying to terrorize blacks unprovoked. Also, the show made a point of how even the black characters had prejudices. At one point, both the whites and blacks are locked up (jail cell? campus holding?) and one of the blacks accosts the (white) cop (campus security) as being racist. At that point the cop shut him down by saying that he marched for black rights in the 60’s. You definitely don’t see that sort of thing these days.