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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Yeah it’s a profoundly stupid take.

    There’s the famous Whoopi Goldberg quote about how as a little kid she saw it with a black woman not beimg a maid and running around the house screaming about it in celebration

    There’s the famous story about Nichelle Nichols wanting to quit to do plays until MLK jr told her that she needed to stay for black people everywhere to be represented as an equal member of the crew, and it was the only show he’d let his kids stay up late to watch.

    From its inception it’s been “woke” by daring to put both a black woman and an asian man in roles where they were to be treated as equals and valued members of the group.

    I’d like to add more examples, but it’s been so long since I’ve watched any star trek.

    EDIT: I just remembered the not at all subtile jab at racism with the two guys that had half black half white faces.