What possible point did the black kid have to do with the Astronaut WIVES club?? I AM SICK of having to put a black person in EVERYTHING even though they have or had nothing to do with the story being told. I don't see them forcing white people in BET shows.
Why can't people just tell the story and not work their little pet agendas in it?
It's crazy how cultural marxism and politially correct speech has poisoned everything in popular culture these days.
Speaking of agendas. The sad thing is that a lot of people won't even notice these things beacuse everything is shiny-glossy and the actors are nice eyecandy. For some these diversions are enough to swallow what they are being fed.
(irony mode on) Yeah, like this is so a GREAT problem. (irony mode off)
Really, how can you be so ignorant?
Either your post is sarcastic or you are beyond stupid. Bottom 10% of your class I bet.
shareYou're trolling, right? The purpose of the maid and her son were to show some of the things going on at the time: most Black people were slotted into jobs like housekeeping, beaches were mainly segregated, as the young man grew up the show reflected the civil rights movement that the astronaut wives would have been fairly insulated from. It was a period show and it was depicting the period. The military was somewhat ahead of the curve (and still is) when it comes to diversity, so the realities of life in FL may have been a bit of a surprise to the wives and their husbands.
shareTo ground it in the 60's/early 70s, same reason they showed the JFK and RFK assassinations and stuff about Vietnam which, likewise, were only peripherally associated with the story.
"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."
The Washington Post still didn't find it politically correct enough. I don't know if changing the colour of the astronauts would have helped for them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/07/09/the-astronaut-wives-club-continues-to-obscure-americas-racial-history/
Did you even read the article? They're complaining that it's TOO politically correct and doesn't show the true reality of time when it comes to racial segregation.
shareI think the characters would have been oblivious to that. The show isn't about the whole world. It's about these few women who lived a very rarified existence, affluent, educated, the wives of American heroes. They wouldn't have known or cared.
"Arguing with trolls is like playing chess with a pigeon . . . ."
I thought about that when they showed that scene. However, since the WAPO author wasn't there to witness those exact events personally, I find it petty to suggest that they didn't happen that way. She suggests that the Grissom's would have had to be saintly, but says it in a way to suggest that she's skeptical they were. Well, a lot of "saintly" white people did play important roles in the Civil Rights Movement and that seems to get lost. How about we give people the benefit of doubt before criticizing them when we don't know?
Having said all that, I do think the show could have portrayed the Civil Rights Movement better. But then it didn't really do that for Vietnam, either, so they probably just didn't want to delve in too deep.
Very true. I don't disagree with the OP in general, because I also get tired of TV shows being PC (particularly those that show flamboyant gay people, as if all gay people are that way). But showing something involving the Civil Rights Movement was appropriate for that time, just as it was to show something on the Vietnam War, RFK and the Women's Liberation Movement. If it had been something involving Gay Rights, then the timing would have been wrong and it would have been PC.
shareWell, that protest is mentioned in the book, so if they're following the book, they have to show the protest, too.
shareI think this thread answered its own question. Posters like you and some of the opinions expressed in this thread are precisely why we still need, and will continue to need, this PCBS, I imagine.
Why can't people just tell the story and not work their little pet agendas in it?
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