IMO if they hadn't have brought up the race issue in HN/FoB it would've seemed odd.
Exactly. Apparently in America it used to be a thing where the black woman was always the maid, so people were uncomfortable with Martha ending up dressed as the maid in HN/FOB. But I thought that episode was very good at condemning the racism, and making Joan and John Smith look a bit foolish for underestimating Martha. When John Smith started saying about it's a story, and Martha slaps him, who didn't cheer! *g* And telling the FOB guy to shut up when she gets the gun on him. Letting Joan know she has medical knowledge of bones in the hand.
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Date: 2007-07-05 02:58 pm (UTC)Exactly. Apparently in America it used to be a thing where the black woman was always the maid, so people were uncomfortable with Martha ending up dressed as the maid in HN/FOB. But I thought that episode was very good at condemning the racism, and making Joan and John Smith look a bit foolish for underestimating Martha. When John Smith started saying about it's a story, and Martha slaps him, who didn't cheer! *g* And telling the FOB guy to shut up when she gets the gun on him. Letting Joan know she has medical knowledge of bones in the hand.