Is a representation of the racial dynamics of the time. We see a few black and asian kids at the dance but the only thing we get is Carol saying her mom wouldn't let her listen to Wolfman Jack because he's "a negro."
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There were a couple of african american kids at the freshman hop.
Seems like it would have been a bit of a departure if Lucas had shoe-horned a racial issue he has no point of reference for in this story. If there was a negligible sized black community where he grew up, like there was where I grew up, then it's not likely that it, or attitudes or prejudices that were common at the time would have been a prominent aspect of everyday life. The throwaway naivete of Carole's line is probably proportionate to how much of an issue it was for her and most of the kids in town.
The movie is about personal rites in that place at that time in history. Not about society.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
I was born in 1965 and I didn't have a black classmate until 7th grade when I was twelve.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
I'm not sure why that's "sad". It's a pretty accurate portrayal of the area and time period. I wouldn't want to watch Straight Outta Compton and have a mostly white cast.
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I see these types of posts here all the time, and I guess people don't realize that suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s did not have much, if any, integration.
I grew up in the late 50 and 60s in a NJ town that was less than an hour's ride from NYC. We had no minorities at all in the entire town. The only time I ever saw a black person was when I saw the garbage-men.
I thought the Negro/Wolfman line was maybe the funniest of the entire movie.
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