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Diahann Carroll dies

Friday, 4 October 2019, 12:52 BFH Uncategorized 36

Diahann Carroll was the first breakthrough black actress to be mainstreamed on American television. It was a palatable pick because she was so damn pretty.

She was 84. She died of cancer.

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  3. She was very pretty — and a real lady.

    I remember being referred as a baby sitter as a last minute sub for a friend. “Julia” was part of the Friday night lineup in those days. I don’t remember the kids at all, but I’ll never forget the dad whose last minute instructions to me included “No T.V. with any nig**** in them.” I was absolutely shocked. It was the first and last time I ever sat for that family. I grew up in a relatively small town and there were only two black families there and my older brother was, at the time, in a serious dating relationship with the only daughter between either family.

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  5. The show broke ground also by portraying a widow raising her child. In the days of ‘Father Knows Best’ and other perfect tv families, Julia helped my mom and me feel less alone. We loved that show.

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  7. A beautiful lady and a beautiful person. Real class and talent. She was a real entertainer without bias and without hate unlike the current crop of so-called entertainers.
    R.I.P. lovely lady.

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  10. BFH — Yes. Or Love American Style or Night Gallery.

    The other thing I remember about the man was that he had a southern accent — a recent transplant to the PNW. No long time locals I ever knew had race prejudice. We have a huge population of American Indians and Chinese. My own maternal grandmother was from the Blackfoot tribe. It was the first time in my young life I’d ever been exposed raw bigotry and it felt like the guy had slapped me.

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  11. A sad day indeed for Hollywood’s endangered species list; Class, wit, charm, REAL talent, REAL beauty and the rarest of all attributes: no axe to grind. RIP Lady Diahann.

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  13. Sincere condolences, a fine actress and role model in the time. That time not long after the civil rights amendment. Room 222 came about that time as well, many more positive influences followed.
    I believe the first 35 years after the civil rights amendment, things were much better than ‘pretty good’.
    Thinking back to then now, helps me understand how wrong in the past couple of decades that reverse racism had to equate itself to white guilt, thanks to the agenda pushing hate filled MSM and useless politicians, all sides of them.
    Instead of having role models like Diahann Carroll, we get Maxine Waters..
    Sweet Dreams for ever, Julia

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  21. Abigail Adams
    I call bullshit on your little story. In small towns, even “relatively small towns”, people know about what goes on. If your brother was in a relationship with a black girl in those days ??? that would have been the talk of the town and you all would have been marked and that guy would have never let you near his house. And whose the bigot here??? “The other thing I remember about the man was that he had a southern accent.” Go fuck yourself…You felt slapped?…he should have slapped your ass. When he made the comment “No T.V. with niggers in it” why didn’t your virtue signalling ass make an excuse and leave? And BFH, “But you could watch The Smothers Brothers, that was fine right?” WTF does that mean???? Yeah it was OK to watch the Smothers Brothers, and Flip Wilson, The Brady Bunch, The Jackson Five, Hee Haw, Mayberry RFD, and the laughs we got from Bill Cosby were endless. I’m white, born and raised in the poor section of Baltimore at that time, Pimlico, still is, and everybody understood what a nigger was… not a nig***,(fixed it for ya, one too many asterisks. The day the niggers told you you couldn’t say nigger, is the day you lost.) My father died when I was 11, and my mother dated a black guy for a while. What a good dude, oh but he had a southern accent…oh shit he must have been a racist…thanks for letting me in on that! Put the wine bottle down AA

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