Ricki Yasha TarrI'm not crying, you're crying.
Dave GoldsmithInspiring story. Thanks for sharing it.
Mr. 30㎝ 🍆💦 
🔞 [nsfw.lgbt]@RickiTarr I seem to recall hearing about how MLK, Jr. visited the set of Star Trek right about the time Nichelle Nichols was seriously considering leaving the show and Dr. King basically told her something to the effect that Lt. Uhura was basically the most important character on TV right now. Hearing that story moved me.
✶Rayotron✶In Nichols words this is what MLK said to her when she told him she was quitting Star Trek:
"You cannot, you cannot... For the first time on television, we will be seen as we should be seen every day—as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing, dance, and go to space… who are professors, lawyers… If you leave, that door can be closed..."
Mae Jemison, the first black woman astronaut was inspired by her. Nichols worked with NASA to recruit Sally Ride and others.
Jhooper@rayotron @mike30030 @RickiTarr Whoopi Goldberg was inspired by Nichelle too. That's why she joined Star Trek TNG even though she had a ton of awards for the movies she was in already.
rainey 🌻@jhooper @rayotron @mike30030 @RickiTarr
"There's a Black lady on TV! And she ain't no maid!"
@raineyday @jhooper @mike30030 @RickiTarr
Yeah, when Nichelle Nichols showed up on Star Trek in the 1960s viewers understood, on a gut level, that it was revolutionary.
Another black TV pioneer to know is Hazel Scott. She was an ardent anti-segregationist. Her "The Hazel Scott Show" (1950) had no black maids. When she was in films she demanded that black characters in them be presented as dignified and intelligent. That ended her movie career.
@rayotron @jhooper @mike30030 @RickiTarr
Yes. Allegedly, this is what a young Whoopi Goldberg, née Caryn Johnson, shouted to her family the first time she saw Uhura.
@raineyday @jhooper @mike30030 @RickiTarr
Oh, no kidding! That's excellent! Whoopie's cool.
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderI'm fessing up to that.
rypofalem@RickiTarr Here's the source so it's easier to read (and with bonus context - a similar story!) https://www.tumblr.com/spiders-hth-is-an-outlier/180353253277/thegaymccoy-representation-matters-happy
Marc Trius@RickiTarr
Wow, this really puts my story of getting someone to call their Jewish mother to shame. If I were Brooks, I'd go home and feel that my existence had been justified
Wow, this really puts my story of getting someone to call their Jewish mother to shame. If I were Brooks, I'd go home and feel that my existence had been justified
BeeCycling has moved@RickiTarr Their relationship is such a great part of the show. Ben doesn't always get things right first time - because no parent ever does. But he's always trying his very best.
Ianto Jones@RickiTarr what a story, and I love to see the DS9 adoration. So many people crap all over it and it is possibly my favorite Trek series.
Cassian [main]@RickiTarr Source, for people who want to reblog: https://spiders-hth-is-an-outlier.tumblr.com/post/180353253277/thegaymccoy-representation-matters-happy/amp
Ken M Sweeney@RickiTarr I used to think it was very weird that Sisko constantly kissed his son in the series. 30 years later and two great kids on, I think it makes perfect sense.
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Wm.sonAs a dad, who recently lost my dad, and with a son, I'm definitely tearing up. This is why representation freaking matters.
Gabriel Pettier@RickiTarr i am, and so are you.
Karen Strickholm@RickiTarr @AnneTheWriter1 The power of storytelling
Allan@RickiTarr the love between Sisko and Jake is one of the most pure and beautiful things in any drama I’ve ever seen. The unselfconscious physical affection was something novel, an undiscovered possibility, I managed to absorb as a young dad.
Which is why I spent about two days crying after seeing this.
Which is why I spent about two days crying after seeing this.
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@RickiTarr Brooks performance in the episode when lived a week as sci-fi writer in the 50s brought me a little closer to understanding what it would be like to live in a society with a caste system undermining me. When Sisko had an outburst of understandable anger at racism at the end of the episode, even his colleagues saw it differently because of his appearance. Brooks made it seem so real. I love #DS9.
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragonsame with his 'outburst' on the holodeck casino heist.
Mike Meyers@RickiTarr thanks for sharing. As a white male dude, I never really thought about representation, almost everbody on screen my whole life looked kinda like me, so there was no Need. BUT this gave me thinking...and I now better understand the whole point. I still dont care much about gender, skin color or disabilities on screen, but when in doubt, let the so long ignored ppl play...(Hopefully this makes sense, english is Not my mother tongue)
Alveus Nosville@RickiTarr Y'know DS9 is the only Trek series I actually care about, so I gotta set time aside to actually watch it.
Reboot Robotnik@RickiTarr People often forget that the fictional is always grounded in the real, and the two are intertwined in more ways than most of us would find comfortable.
Our heroes give us strength when it seems nobody else can.