(This chapter was added and revised at the suggestion of Nilan's classmates, maybe it was changed in a hurry, let's make do with it)

Seeing this situation, the host was also a little embarrassed. He is not racist, but he knows that the result of doing so is likely to cost him his job. It's just that when the Carpenter family was involved in the filming of the show, they were negligent and forgot to remind them.

"Stop! Stop it! These can't be allowed to come up. The staff who were recording immediately came out to stop it.

One of them, who still looks like the director of the show, is very angry and says, "Who let the appear on my show!" Who exactly! ”

There are already TV station crews standing with their arms crossed, intending to force the to leave with a passive attitude. There were also plans to call the building's security guards to come and drive the blacks out of the building.

"No wonder we think the air is getting worse, it's a who has come to us."

"Shhhh Don't talk, watch what they do. ”

"I don't want to work with these filthy people."

"Get out of here! Get out of here! ”

The Carpenter family was stunned, there were many black people in the place where they lived, and there were also many black people among the colleagues who worked for Bart before. For them, apartheid was a joke and simply unrealistic. They thought it would be just accompaniment and there would be no problems, but they didn't expect it to cause such a big reaction.

The blacks who were stopped all stood in place, looking at the eyes of the people with contempt. Some people are at a loss, some are already so excited that they clench their fists, their fingernails pierce their palms with blood, and some look at the people around them blankly, not knowing what they are thinking.

Bart stood up coldly and said, "They are my friends!" I asked them to come and give me an accompaniment! ”

The director of the show said angrily: "You let these niggers get out of the way for me, I will never let any niggers appear in the camera." ”

"Then I won't record this show!" Bart said without giving in. He grew up in a foreign country and knew what it was like to be discriminated against. Fortunately, when he was growing up, he met some good people, so he didn't become very extreme.

It's just that Bart still empathizes with this discrimination, and he feels that those people are really unreasonable. There is no difference between blacks, whites, and yellows, not all of them are human. Everyone will see God when they die, and it makes no difference to him the color of his skin.

Some of the TV station staff stood on the director's side, some showed sympathetic looks, and more were silent and neutral. All in all, the recording of the show stopped, and it depends on the situation that the recording cannot continue.

"In accordance with the rights conferred by U.S. law, I request that the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson be invoked to enforce segregation in the workplace!"

The director of the television program spoke as if he were a revolutionary martyr himself, and wanted to expel the Carpenter family and their black friends from the city. In particular, when he mentioned "Plessy v. Ferguson," he was greeted with cheers from some of the whites present.

"Yes, we demand strict compliance with the law!"

"Yes, that's right! The law has to be obeyed by everyone. ”

This Plessy v. Ferguson case refers to the June 7, 1892, when Homer A. Plessy, who was one-eighth black, deliberately boarded a train on the East Louisiana Railroad for white people.

Under Louisiana's 1890 law, whites and races of color were required to ride in equal but segregated carriages. Under the law, Plessy was identified as a "race of color" and was arrested and imprisoned.

He took the Louisiana government to court, accusing it of violating his rights under the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. But when Judge John Howard Ferguson ruled that the state had the authority to enforce the law in the state, Plessey lost the case and was fined $300 for violating the segregation law.

Plessy then filed a complaint against Judge Ferguson's decision in the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the court upheld Ferguson's decision. Even so, Plessy was not satisfied and continued to appeal, and the case lasted for several years.

In 1896, Plessy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 18, the Supreme Court ruled by a 7-1 majority: "Louisiana's laws do not violate the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, because 'segregated but equal' does not imply discrimination against blacks, but merely recognizes differences between whites and blacks because of their skin color." ”

Since then, U.S. law has allowed states to provide segregation facilities that include schools, hospitals, train cars, soccer fields, drinking fountains, and toilets. All in all, everything should be kept as separate as possible.

The other party has already raised the weapon of the law, and the Carpenter family has no room for refutation.

During this period, Alex wanted to say a few words several times, but he knew that he was a small person and that it was useless to say anything. So he kept silent.

Bart stood up with a gloomy face, he looked at the director of the show and the rest of the staff, and then pulled Richard and Angel and walked out. Alex also angrily left, and the black band followed them.

When I came out of the studio, I was greeted by the people who were waiting outside for the Carpenters. These people are from Carpenter Records, and they are coming along to cheer them on. I was supposed to sit in the audience, but I didn't expect to see such a scene.

Rudy followed, his mouth wide open, staring at the Carpenters. He trembled his lips and said, "You, you're all crazy! Do you know the impact of CBS in the record industry? ”

Richard said confusedly, "Isn't CBS a broadcaster?" ”

“FUCK！ It's a conglomerate, not only music and TV, but also movies! They can pinch us to death with just a finger! Rudy scolded, and he sighed and said, "I'm still thinking about working with CBS and using their sales channels to sell our records to the world." ”

Bart was also angry at this time, he touched his head and said, "Since we can't record the show, let's go back." ”

Alex shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sooner or later, we will be able to do something as big as theirs, sooner or later!" ”

Angel said with some pity: "If the show is recorded successfully, we will really be famous." ”

When the blacks heard this, they all looked embarrassed. Strictly speaking, the Carpenter family didn't have to come out with them, and they could have changed to a white band to accompany them. It was they who dragged down the Carpenter family, and as a result, the show went yellow.

Originally, they thought that this was the end of the matter. Unexpectedly, when the president of CBS heard about it, he immediately asked people to stop Carpente. At that time, they had already walked to the gate and were about to look for a car to go back.

"Accompaniment is OK, but the only condition is that black people can't be on camera." So said the president of CBS.

Bart was indignant about the matter and did not want to accede to CBS's request. They insist on their demands and will not budge. Just as the negotiations were about to break down, Rudy was about to go crazy in a hurry, and he kept putting pressure on them.

"OMG! Are you stupid, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if I can have such an opportunity, even if I am willing to dress up as a woman. ”

"Really? Would you really like to pretend to be a woman? ”

"It's fake! If I really pretend to be a woman, how will I look up in front of other people in the future? ”

"Cut, I still want to say that if you pretend to be a woman, we will agree to the other party's conditions."

Eventually, they agreed to CBS's request that their band not appear on camera, but that they had to be allowed to play live. As for the racist staff, they were replaced by CBS to let the employees who did not discriminate against blacks record the show.

CBS allowed it, and the Carpenter returned to the show. This time, they found that after the staff of the show changed, the atmosphere at the scene was much better. The staff who were replaced all smiled respectfully at them, and there were even a few black people inside, and it seemed that these were all goodwill unleashed on them by CBS.

These blacks were all transferred in temporarily, and they had all worked in another place before. I entered with different doors, took different elevators, and used different offices. They do the same work and get different wages.

Some of them passed by and whispered, "We think your family is brave, really!" ”

They all respond with a smile when they say this. In the fifties, the consciousness of black rights gradually awakened, but it was still suppressed by the white dominated society. Even if there were riots, they were small and scattered. There is no trend that can affect society, and the black people only secretly bury this resentment in their hearts and dare not express it.

Social turmoil is not caused by hierarchical differences, just like slave societies, feudal societies, and so on, which also had periods of steady development. The reason for the turmoil is that the ruling party has the power to awaken the sense of autonomy in the pursuit of power.

The real civil rights movement had to wait until the '60s, when American society was truly turbulent and full of gunsmoke. At that time, the contradiction between black and white was extremely sharp, and the slightest conflict would develop into bloody violence. If the Carpenter family had dared to be like this at that time, they might have been stabbed by extremists in the white community.

Those people threw stones at their homes, poured gasoline on their houses, and so on, and the number of people who died for the civil rights movement in those days was innumerable, kidnapped, assassinated, burned, disappeared, and so on.