Posted by docmed03 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Why-England-at-ALL-tp1504789p1504807.html

It seems to me that it's all very well someone like Straker - a man in a position of authority - saying that racial prejudice burned itself out five years ago, but people in so-called authority (politicians, for example) are "cocooned" from real life and don't always see - or choose to see - what's going on in the real world.

I'm not for one moment suggesting that Straker is like that - he genuinely believes that what he says is true, and would not have said it otherwise - but most people in authority cushion themselves from the real world and refuse to address the problems therein.

I feel a rant coming on...

D Persica <[hidden email]> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibbon"
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: Why England at ALL?
>
> In any case, the show was set ten years in the future from the time it
> was conceived.

I get a chuckle when I realize just how much stuff the show says will have
happened in the 10 years between the time of its creation and the time when
the show is supposed to be taking place. To wit:

1) At one point Straker says something to the effect of "Racial prejudice?
Why that burned itself out five years ago."
Racism was eradicated in 1975! Apparently the word didn't get out.

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