Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I’d walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! Oh oh oh
(Source: coralain)
“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television. I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.
I mean, everything that we introduce to the world is shitty. Meaning white people. I really think that white people are from another planet, because when we came to America, it was so nice. It was just so nice. It was just Indians. And they weren’t even Indians, we called them that by accident, and we still call them that. Like we knew in a month that it wasn’t Indians, but we just don’t give a shit. We never correct it. We came here and they were like, “Hi,” and we’re like, “Hey, you’re Indians, right?” And they were like, “No.” “No this is India, right?” “No, no, it’s a total other place.” “You’re not Indians?” “No…” “Nah, you’re Indians. You’re Indians for hundreds of years after.”
(Source: brodtrachim)
