RSteve
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I always get a charge out of James Spader. At the end of each episode of Boston Legal when he and Wm. Shattner would have a cocktail and smoke cigars, I always felt like I wanted to join them. I watch the Blacklist primarily to see James Spader at work. I believe he's also the executive producer. On this past Friday's episode, Spader's character has a passionate affair with Anne, played by LaChanze, an award winning African American actress, that wikipedia says is 60, the same age as Spader. I thought to myself, "how times have changed in the last few years." I don't recall, even in the 1990s, seeing an interracial kiss on TV. I think it'll be far more common in the future. Interracial marriage in the U.S. is almost 18% and the number is growing.
When I was in high school in the early 1960s, the U.S. was reacting to the Russians putting Sputnik in space. I was placed in an advanced science and math program. One of the girls in both my science and math class was Black. She was incredibly smart and beautiful and it took all my courage to ask her out on a date. She said she'd love to go out with me, but no, she would not; her parents wouldn't allow it,and the gossip at school would be unbearable. For years, we'd pass by one another in the hall and just touch hands, nothing more.
Ultimately, she married an African American man who today is a multi-millionaire philanthropist. Their marriage didn't last long and she died in her mid 40s.
The times, they are a'changin'
When I was in high school in the early 1960s, the U.S. was reacting to the Russians putting Sputnik in space. I was placed in an advanced science and math program. One of the girls in both my science and math class was Black. She was incredibly smart and beautiful and it took all my courage to ask her out on a date. She said she'd love to go out with me, but no, she would not; her parents wouldn't allow it,and the gossip at school would be unbearable. For years, we'd pass by one another in the hall and just touch hands, nothing more.
Ultimately, she married an African American man who today is a multi-millionaire philanthropist. Their marriage didn't last long and she died in her mid 40s.
The times, they are a'changin'