This is kind of embarrassing. My mother was a bigoted white Southerner, and when the original Star Trek came on she did not approve or let us watch it, not only because of Uhura, but because she had heard somewhere that Leonard Nimoy was from "the only tribe in Africa that has ears like that". She basically thought the ears were REAL and he was wearing " whiteface" makeup because he was black.It was absolutely idiotic and she would tell people "the truth" and embarrass me.Only after he appeared in Mission Impossible did she grudgingly admit her mistake.I think Leonard Nimoy would have been very surprised to hear that he was actually from Africa..in someone's twisted fantasy.
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- I used to believe that the visible rays of the sun were beaming people up to heaven. like in star trek.Anon
- I used to belive that if I put my finges in my ears when i sang noone could hear me— Helen
- When I was younger, I used to believe if i covered my ears before I farted no one else would hear it.— Lime
- I used to believe that traveling in cognito was a place in Africa or somewhere.— Jennifer
- I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.— Sarah Jane