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Lucy and Ricky were both Caucasian. I don’t believe an interracial marriage would have been permitted on TV in the 1950s. (The idea that your “race” is determin
by leephillips 3y ago
Lucy and Ricky were both Caucasian. I don’t believe an interracial marriage would have been permitted on TV in the 1950s. (The idea that your “race” is determined by your accent or place of birth is pretty recent.)
- busterarm 3y agoAsk somebody over 80 if that was controversial back then, because it was.
- leephillips 3y agoIf I understand you correctly, you’ve retreated from your position that the marriage was “interracial”, but maintain that nevertheless there was something controversial about it at the time. What was the controversy? Can you support your claim, other than by asking me to search for octogenarians and trust their memories?
- kelipso 3y agoPretty sure it would have been considered interracial back then. Definitions change or whatever, and you can just make up your own definitions too.
- leephillips 3y agoI’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have been. What were the two races? Note that they had the same skin tone, or very close. Is Cuban a race?
- kelipso 3y agoSpanish, Southern European, Cuban, take your pick. Definition of race is different depending on the country, time period, and politics.
- pseudalopex 3y ago> Note that they had the same skin tone, or very close. Maybe under makeup and the right lighting. Many pictures show not.
- pseudalopex 3y agoDESI ARNAZ: Nobody wanted me to play Ricky. The network. The sponsors. Nobody. Who the hell believes this Babalu fellow is going to be married to this typical American girl?[1] I don't know what words people used then. And the public accepted it more than executives feared. But they didn't see him as white like her. [1] https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/content/uploads/2021/11/TPT03_Episode05_Transcript.pdf https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/content/uploads/2021/11/TPT0...
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