Unless Rufus is being set up to get a taste of REAL racism by going back in time and ends up appreciating what the present is like, this will get old VERY fast and end up being a deal breaker for me. I'll see what happens next week when the team goes back to Lincoln's assassination.
BTW, I've called Jersey home for 46 years and am neither white nor black, and can honestly say that I experienced little racism that was of consequence here in Jersey, and have never had to play the Race Card. I worked in the school system in Camden, which is 95% black or Hispanic. I had a co-worker who was black but never actually lived in Camden, and she reminisced about how in the early 1960s she and her husband were the first black couple to move into a new, otherwise all-white residential suburban development, and nobody treated them differently. She also reminisced about how she never identified with Martin Luther King Jr. or felt any political or cultural loyalty toward him.
So, you're, "neither white nor black," but you're trying to present the anecdotal to support the argument that racism has never existed, where you're from.
Everyone's experience is unique. Let's not try to speak on behalf of what others may or may not experience, based on the good face that someone deliberately put on to you - that one time, way back when.
What I do know; is that the commenters that are pretending like there wasn't any racism in the 30's - anywhere - are just patently ridiculous.
Of course a person of color would go to the back of the bus... whether it was explicit or implicit. They would have most certainly, "known their place," in the 1930's... without question.
It says a lot more about the current antagonistic societal environment, that we have to keep trying to pretend like racism has never existed; instead of realizing that racial tensions are CURRENTLY as bad as they have been in a long while... as evidenced by the hatred that is oft spewed in forums by many a closet racist, behind the comfort of their computer screen.
The fact that we have to constantly try to insulate ourselves from entertainment that depicts uncomfortable times in history, says a lot more about those of us that are unwilling to accept the fact that other people experience life differently from us.
The solution is to either educate ourselves better; or just try to be more empathetic to things that we personally have not had any experience with.
Or, we can go on pretending that, everything that is uncomfortable for us to watch, must somehow be attributed to the, "race-card;" when, in point of fact... it is us that have sullied the program with these false accusations, based on nothing more than our own misguided belief that nothing untoward has ever occurred to anyone outside of our own, "race," - if we must make everything about that, to begin with.
It's not the show throwing out the race-card... it's us, trying to forbade the show from depicting historical racial tensions, in the first place, as somehow unrealistic. -- When, just the idea that there would be no sign of racism anywhere in the 1930's is just utterly preposterous.
Let's get past all of this childish race-mongering.
If everyone looked exactly the same, we'd surely find something else divisive to cry foul about.
Apparently, we can all only see as far as ourselves.
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