N stole our dates

" It's the actual scientific name of the race. It's like Caucasian for whites. "

There is nothing remotely scientific about either term and there is nothing scientific about "race" whatsoever. Humanity has a broad continuum, race isn't a scientific concept it is a socio-political one.

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Get some education!

You're being mocked because your an idiot...

Sorry, but I lived through those times.

Yes, interracial couples did exist. They existed in 1862. But even in the north it was not safe. Blacks were dragged out of their cars and beaten. Inter-racial couples were attacked.

Sad but true.

If Life gives you lemons....
throw them into a pitcher of vodka.

I'm from NH. If the Dexter Lake Club was in NH 1962, then all the black people IN NH in 1962 would have been in that club that night! Just saying. Which is to say, there were not very many African-Americans living in NH in the 1960s. The movie is supposed to take place in New England,but not necessarily NH. Miller was an alumnus of Dartmouth. However, Emily Dickinson College is an obvious riff on Mount Holyoke College, a prestigious women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Mass., which is just up Route 116 from South Hadley. Otter introduces himself to Shelly as "Frank Lymon from Amherst." Thus Faber might have been a parody on Amherst College. Amherst College had fraternities in the sixties, but they were banned in the seventies.