Kudos Again To Television

Score another one for television. I saw the premiere last night of the new reality show, “The Real Wedding Crashers” and was pleasantly surprised to see that the very first couple featured on the show was an inter-ethnic couple – black and white. Kudos to the producers of the show for being unafraid to have such a mix on the highly important very first episode. And I applaud their handling of the cross ethnic relationship in that they didn’t handle it at all. Not one thing was said for the entire hour of the show about their different skin tones. It was also a joy to see that the large number of people at the wedding were equally from both sides of the spectrum and showed that there need not be any reason to question the love of these two people nor any reason to treat this marriage any differently than any other.

I take note of these television events because like it or not, television is in every home and does play a large part in impacting our public consciousness. So whenever an episode like last night occurs, it is, in my opinion, something to be noted and to applaud. At least until such a thing is so very common that it passes completely unnoticeably. That day will come sooner or later.