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And Roy Campanella's father was WHITE.Nothing at all was done to him!

What a stupid comment !

Since the dawn of human history privileged males could always use unprivileged females as their concubines, courtesans, geishas, right of the first night, slave girls, comfort girls, mistresses, etc. It has always been okay since 1620 for a white man to sleep with a black women. African Americans would look a whole lot more African if that weren't true. Conversely it has never been okay until recently for a black man to show any attraction to a white woman. Even now, this much time after 1965, how often do you see black movie stars playing romantic lead with white leading ladies ? Because it is still an issue. It is okay for Halle Berry to do a love scene with Pierce Brosnan. It is not okay for Will Smith to do a love scene with Reese Witherspoon. He CAN do a love scene with Eva Mendes because Latina isn't quite "white".

It was NOT a "stupid comment" at all! Roy's father was a nobody. He fell in love with and married a black woman,tight here in America and was NOT tortured,lynched,no hounded out of his neighborhood. You are the one who claimed that until 1965 (using the Terrill example),no black male could even look at a white woman without being murdered.

And unlike you,I knew,PERSONALLY,Roy Campanella and his family. His children and my brother and I were all friends. His step son,who is a very black black and I,who am white,were good friend! In the 1950s,David was part of a group of kids and nobody batted an eye,looked at us funny,nor tried to lynch David,because he and I danced together.And that had NOTHING at all to do with the fact that his father was famous.

Frankly,you don't know what you're talking about. You just post bigoted propaganda and then claim that others don't know anything,when it is you,YOU, who have a terribly skewed vision of things.

ARE YOU BLACK,OR JUST A WANNABE WITH A FLY UP YOUR NOSE?

Conversely it has never been okay until recently for a black man to show any attraction to a white woman. Even now, this much time after 1965, how often do you see black movie stars playing romantic lead with white leading ladies ?

You grew up in a very strange part of the USA. When I grew up, it was BIG NEWS when a black man married a white woman in VA which was against the law. That was 1962 and the law in VA was changed. In Ohio, where I grew up, black men and white women could date and marry and many did although people would stare at them but no one got lynched, no one even said anything, no one vandalized their house. Yes it was "not normal" but most people let it go without incident. I'd say in the 1970's it was no big deal at all for a black man to be dating a white woman in Ohio or Northern California which are the two places I was familiar with at the time. I will admit to not having gone to the old South until 1979 so I don't know what went on there.

Now as far as the movies go, hollywood is a racist bigoted town. No question about that. But I do remember Showboat, the movie and musical doing well. And I remember Billy Dee Williams occasionally getting the white chick in a movie or two in the late 1970's. I think Denzel Washington got the white chick lately too. But, if you actually watch what Hollywood puts out, I feel very sorry for you. It is divorced from reality. Besides have you seen how white men are portrayed by hollywood. Check out "Best picture of the year" American Beauty. Every white guy in it was a piece of crap.