Reply #10: I actually liked Electric Company more than Sesame Street when I was a kid [View All]

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And I definitely never gave a crap about anybody's "race" on the show.

It's not just the kids shows, but it's pro sports and popular music as well. When you see someone like Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds (steroids aside, in his case) hitting home runs, you don't think it's anything out of the ordinary, except for a damn good hitter. But there was a time a few decades ago where those guys would have had to play in an entirely separate league. How many racist parents in the 50's wouldn't let their kids bring Little Richard's records in the house, but would buy them Pat Boone's white bread bastardizations of the same songs?

There was a joke going around a few years ago about how it was kinda weird that the best golfer was a black guy (Tiger Woods) and the best rapper was a white guy (Eminem). But the larger truth behind the joke is that both were accepted in their chosen professions, when that wouldn't have been possible at an earlier time.

Each generation is progressively more "colorblind" than the previous one. And that's a good thing.