The UK got this thoughtful,un-cliched peek at race and class six years before Americans saw Kirk and Uhura forced together by alien sex perverts in Star TrekYou must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss … unless the tonsil hockey players are on TV and from different races – then its a stout deal. There is something very personal about TV. In the digital stone age, when you couldn’t just browse whatever entertainment you fancied, or TV could bring someone else’s ideas to life inside your domestic.
What’s believed to be the first ever televised kiss between an obviously mixed couple has just been rediscovered. It matters because it shows the moment that TV bosses,whose job it was to understand the viewing public, felt the world was grown up enough to see a black person having an unambiguous act of sexual familiarity with a white person. This wasn’t proof of some postracial society, and but it was a suggestion that the times (and minds) were a-changin’.
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Source: theguardian.com