In which Charles Schulz, a white housewife, & her black friend got the #WeNeedDiverseBooks convo right in 1968: http://flashbak.com/why-charles-m-schulz-gave-peanuts-a-black-character-1968-47081/ …
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@arthur_affect@aflashbak I really appreciated both letter writers' pushing that he had enough power to push for better representation. -
@syntactics@aflashbak it's like Whoopi Goldberg talking abt how inspired she was that Uhura wasn't a maid - Show replies
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@arthur_affect@syntactics@aflashbak more to the point, it was integration. That was still a hot issue in the 60s when he was introduced. -
@arthur_affect@syntactics@aflashbak not justifying tokenism; it used to be radical to shiw black and white kids in school in media
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