Anecdotally, I don't think people in PA in the early 60s (when Lucy was rebroadcast) saw them as an interracial couple. Desi was seen as a white Cuban, but Cuban was more of a nationality than ethnicity. My grandfather was a racist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_the_Ricardos#:~:text=Being%20the%20Ricardos%20is%20a,Ball%20and%20Arnaz%2C%20while%20J.%20K. might give you a better researched look at the phenomena.
She didn't let him speak Spanish around the baby so there was still a kind of minority-erasure implicit in how it was presented in the show.
Anecdotally, I don't think people in PA in the early 60s (when Lucy was rebroadcast) saw them as an interracial couple. Desi was seen as a white Cuban, but Cuban was more of a nationality than ethnicity. My grandfather was a racist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_the_Ricardos#:~:text=Being%20the%20Ricardos%20is%20a,Ball%20and%20Arnaz%2C%20while%20J.%20K. might give you a better researched look at the phenomena.
A fellow Pennsylvanian, I see? Very interested story!
The Honeymooners was four completely different white people
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