• FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s so true… that lady was such a boss.

    Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Jerome Bixby, and some other sci-fi authors all contributed to the first couple of seasons… TV’s first interracial kiss between Kirk and Urura… a third thing… We’d have missed out on a lot of good stuff if “Lucy” hadn’t insisted on producing the show!

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      1 year ago

      People also forget that a white woman kissing a Cuban man on TV also wasn’t exactly cool with alot of people in the 50s. Could technically be considered the first interracial kiss 🤷🏻

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        Oh fair, I didn’t think about that… I’d just always heard that the first was Shatner and Nichols, but you could be right

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          In reality it was a gradual thing that kind of crept up over time. I said technically earlier because Desi Arnaz is “Technically” white, idk who decides where these lines are drawn, it’s definitely not me lol. William Shatner(cause that’s how he rolls I guess) also kissed actress France Nuyen (half white/half Chinese) on TV, which could also be considered first.

          The kiss between Shatner and Nichols is the first kiss between a white and black person on TV. Which if you’re a racist would probably upset you the most so it gets mentioned as the first I guess.