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Jiek_Fafn posted...

Everything I've read about that points to the opposite. Lucy had to outright fight yo get Desi cast as Ricky. They had to do a vaudeville show together beforehand to prove to execs that people wouldn't flip tables over it.

I get that but this topic is about Spaniard vs white Spanish Cuban. My grandfather (born 1919, ww2 veteran) was about as racist against Italian people as he was against "Latinos" is the point I was getting at. When I love Lucy came out people in his part of the country (Philly) barely even realized that people from Latin America existed and if they met them they checked 99% of the same boxes as Italians who they had met a ton of.

My grandfather was basically a poor white protestant growing up on a farm (his Dad died when he was a baby of the 1918 pandemic and he had to leave the house at 14 to start making money) that moved to the city and married an Irish Catholic girl after he came back from the war. Being that poor he still looked down on "Eye"talians. Which says something about the nature of racism.