The Bartender
Yaphet Kotto as a black bartender in the wild west is not realistic, that's just me.
shareAnd a preacher armed with a Colt Frontier in a church ?
shareRight after slavery ended black folks would not have been allowed to serve drinks to whites or even work behind the bar, they would've been the help, sweeping, mopping and wiping off the tables.
shareThe fictitious town of Rincon was a hundred miles south of Denver, which means it was located in the state of Colorado, admitted to the Union four years earlier. This is decidedly the West, not the South. The story is set in 1880, fifteen years after the Civil War wherein the Colorado Territory was majority pro-Union. Mama's Saloon was a private business and anyone who didn't want to be served by a black man could take their business elsewhere (at the time, it was the only saloon in town, but a new competitor was being built). The fact that George (Yaphet Kotto) was 6'4" helped keep racists at bay.
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