On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:14 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:

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> And as for Linc being a Black character white audiences would like to
watch, well yeah. CWIII, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jimmie Walker, Don
Mitchell (I had to look up the Ironside cast), Greg Collier, Diahann
Carroll, Nichelle Nichols, etc all had to play characters who appealed to
white audiences or southern TV affiliates would have pulled the shows from
their schedules and put the networks on the defensive. In 1979 CBS put The
Dukes of Hazzard on the air with all of its confederate imagery and got no
pushback.

Greg Morris. Getting older is no fun.

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