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LeVar Burton Says Geordi LaForge Never Finding Love in Star Trek Was Racist
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:39 pm
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Star LeVar Burton Says Geordi LaForge Never Finding Love Was Racist: “Those White Men Who Wrote The Show Had An Unconscious Bias That Was On Display To Me And To Other People Of Color”
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Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:40 pm to SPEEDY
Geordi found love, it was just one sided and he was a simp.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:43 pm to SPEEDY
Technically, none of the motherfrickers found love on TNG. Worf dated Troi towards the end of Season 7, but they had split up by the time of Generations. Riker and Troi eventually got married in the movies.
In any case, Burton is better than this. No reason to stoop to this.
In any case, Burton is better than this. No reason to stoop to this.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:43 pm to SPEEDY
I remember multiple episodes of him chasing some chick around.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 6:52 pm to SPEEDY
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To Me And To Other People Of Color”
Worf was knocking boots with Troi and Dax
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:01 pm to SPEEDY
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“Those White Men Who Wrote The Show Had An Unconscious Bias That Was On Display To Me And To Other People Of Color”
really, so them having kirk making out with ohura at a time where you could risk going to jail for showing black and whites kissing was just a front for the behind the scenes bigotry huh, what a frickin simp idiot he is and he doesnt even know ST was first and formost the groundbreaking show to break through all racial and social barriers. they were woke before being woke was cool
This post was edited on 12/15/21 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:01 pm to SPEEDY
Like he wasn't tapping Wesley's arse.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:02 pm to SPEEDY
Victim mentality. A particular side of the aisle has been pushing it for decades and it seems to have taken hold. Disgraceful and weak 
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:05 pm to SPEEDY
Since he’s technically blind on the series, I guess this is the victimhood paralympics.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:15 pm to SPEEDY
Yeah, unconscious bias doesn't exist. Besides, everybody knows that black men don't marry their women anyway.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:16 pm to SPEEDY
Uhh, how about worf then?! That guy banged hard. What a loser.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:29 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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In any case, Burton is better than this.
Obviously not.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:35 pm to SPEEDY
Hey Lavar, you played a throwaway character in a lame series. And Reading Rainbow is only remembered fondly by limpwristed millennials.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 7:37 pm to flvelo12
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Obviously not.
Well, I can only guess how straining it can be to be past your celebrity prime but still need to be working. It seems, he is seeing an opportunity to get on one of the Paramount+ Star Trek shows, and he is playing this card to get his opportunity.
...If Star Trek: Picard were a better show, you might be able to appreciate the craven blackmailing. But it’s extra pathetic when he’s doing this in light of Paramount+‘s track record for Star Trek quality.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 8:16 pm to SPEEDY
No one wanted a guy wearing a car’s air filter on his face.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 8:37 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Worf married Dax in DS9 but she was sadly killed off because she needed to go start work on that Ted Danson show.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 9:42 pm to SPEEDY
There is a trek trope - the captain is essentially married to the ship as a whole (and while dalliances and even longer term relationships did happen, normally didn't last) and the engineer is married to the engines.
From TOS, the 2 crustiest, whitest dudes in the entire franchise, (real) McCoy and (real) Scotty were more or less confirmed bachelors.
I like LeVar Burton a lot. I respect his body of work, the work with children, just the whole nine yards. But this take is dumb, lazy, very late and sadly, all too predictable. Dumb even for modern Hollywood.
From TOS, the 2 crustiest, whitest dudes in the entire franchise, (real) McCoy and (real) Scotty were more or less confirmed bachelors.
I like LeVar Burton a lot. I respect his body of work, the work with children, just the whole nine yards. But this take is dumb, lazy, very late and sadly, all too predictable. Dumb even for modern Hollywood.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 10:06 pm to Thundercles
Worf also got to bang the new younger Dax host once.
Wasn't it some of the same showrunners/writers on DS9 that gave Sisko a 2nd wife? And let Sisko's dork kid date a dabo girl?
Seems to me they were pretty accurate and forward thinking in having Geordi's awkward engineer character fall in love with a hologram based on a real woman. And they did something similar with whitebread Lt. Broccoli.
Wasn't it some of the same showrunners/writers on DS9 that gave Sisko a 2nd wife? And let Sisko's dork kid date a dabo girl?
Seems to me they were pretty accurate and forward thinking in having Geordi's awkward engineer character fall in love with a hologram based on a real woman. And they did something similar with whitebread Lt. Broccoli.
Posted on 12/15/21 at 10:06 pm to SPEEDY
And has it taken him this long to finally say something about it? I am genuinely asking, because I do not know.
Why must anything and everything be racist? This seems like trying way too hard.
Can a character regardless of color just not "find love."
Why must anything and everything be racist? This seems like trying way too hard.
Can a character regardless of color just not "find love."
Posted on 12/15/21 at 10:11 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Worf was knocking boots with Troi and Da
So that right there goes against his claims of racism.
So tired of the victim mentality. Not all characters are the same. It's not about race.
It's how the writer writes the character. Maybe they didn't want his character having sex or relationships? Some people might actually identify with that? And even if they don't, so what? If he had a problem with it then he should have spoken up then or quit. He signed on for this character and didn't seem to have an issue back then.
Diversity doesn't have to always be black vs white. Diversity can be a character with love interests and another without.
Burton is a freaking a-hole for this. Especially if another black character did in fact have relationships.
This post was edited on 12/15/21 at 10:15 pm
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