Rod Serling on the topic of RACE

The man across from Serling is James Dickey, author of Delverance.

He fires up a cig at interview opening and fills the studio with smoke .... then schools the audience on race relations , what a forward looking soul. What an ICON !!

I like Rod Sterling and Hogan's Heros. There's a time n place for straight plays and theater of the absurd.

AIRBORNE! All the way Mr. Serling!

Rod held up a mirror to show us ourselves. To show us the truth, the zeitgeist - good or bad. No one has done it better since....

He’s been gone so long now. But never has his voice been louder. His ideals character and voice still rings strong and clear thru the decades. He was one of only a handful of full that used tv to cut hatred of any kind to the bone. And he did this not with a cannon. But a pen. And dose it thru the hearts and minds. We cant stop hatred of any kind through hatred. He dose it thru the will of each individual. Thru story’s that respect the observer will of discernment. I’m sadden that the powers on high so silently cut his voice. And so grateful the voices of his work are even louder now. We are better from his intentions!

We know Serling died of lung cancer. But what about those poor guys sitting next to him?

He got in trouble when his show
went over its weekly $1000 budget !!🤣

Rods prophetic ; “when truth becomes an enemy to this country” ….

Im only 13 and I feel like kids my age don’t know about rod serling and the twilight zone but wow the show is so good!! My language arts teachers entire curriculum is based off of twilight zone episodes and we get to study the characters, symbols, irony, etc!

Rod Serling was an amazing guy and was ahead of his time. I wish I could’ve had some conversations with him.

I WOUNDER IF DR KING LISTEN TO HIM FOR I SEE THE SAME OPEN HOPE ON MAN

Whoa this guy was ahead. Holy smokes christballs.

Fk racism

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Is it just me or would he not support the extreme parts work movement ?

What a fucking goat

Admittedly, Rod Serling was wise beyond his years...the fact he could point out society's unspoken fears, prejudices, and ignorance during this time is impressive.

The human race! 😁

Brilliant

If we are indeed a global community, there is only one minority. The European race. That is not racist. That is not bigoted. That is pure fact. Most of the 7+ billion people on this planet are Asian, Negro or Indian (India). I don't say this as "white pride" or anything like that. It is just fact.

It's a bummer...this would have been an interesting conversation. But, James Dickey was cut out of it, same with the host. Nice points by Serling, but it would have been good to hear counterpoints or supportive commentary by the other two.

Incredibly well spoken man.

Imagine a recorded conversation with Rod Sterling and Muhammad Ali

He was pure genius....

An absolute class act. They don't make them like this any more.

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The WW2 generation is hard for us to fathom today. My wife's grandfather (died 1989) had one of his brothers killed in WW2. He refused to buy a German or Japanese car for the rest of his life.

Rod loved smoking 🚭

Is that Christopher Walken?

I always thought that the Science fiction of Twilight Zone and Star Trek was trying to say all the things that drama with a contemporary setting couldn't. So yes Mr Serling, on some level your Buck Rodgers story did get through to me.

I'm from New Zealand and I love this guy. So tragic he died too young.

Rod Serling was way ahead of his time. He is so well spoken, very articulate and sympathetic to the plight of the victimized.😊

This is the most rewatchable tv show I've ever seen. Pitty they took it off Netflix. Something so hauntingly mesmerizing about going back and watching these older episodes.

People on twitter in 2023 are gonna get mad becasue he said negro and the whole rest of the message goes in and out.

The smoke in the air

Rod Serling and the writers of Twilight Zone were allegorical geniuses in regard to the social, political and cultural zeitgeist and the damnedest thing is the longevity and honesty of those messages are as true today as they were half a century ago. He would be appalled to see the closure of libraries and the seizure of books and the dismissal of critical race theory. That being said if he were to see tik-tok the and rampant representation of the extreme left woke movement he might just hope it all ends up like "Time Enough At Last". He was a Chesterfield smoking man's man after all.

He was awesome, to bad he smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, Mr Serling passed at 50 way to Young.

The problem with asking television (or film, or media in general) to take a stand on an issue is that such entertainment itself is, by definition, a distinct and purposeful engineered reality. Props, sets, actors, scripts, sound management... every aspect purposefully done for narrative flow. I greatly admire and respect Rod Serling's work and accomplishments, but part of me wishes that he (and perhaps a whole generation) would have kept the notion in mind that media and reality are not the same thing and never have been.

The 2 democrats he’s talking to are like “ixnay on the aycismray in our artypay” uncomfortable

I had no idea Rod Sterling was such a thoughtful person

My uncle was on the Baatan Death March. He survived--barely.

Thats the thing white peoples wont ever understand, even if you cant right historical wrongs, you can always fix your attitude today about them but by refusing to acknowledge the truth you are fighting progress

Lol people will always have things to complain about.

His comments about the guilt one should or shouldn't feel when watching the cavalry force indigenous people from their land immediately made me think. While we needn't feel personally guilty (having not done it ourselves), we should acknowledge that the wealth that most Americans have now was stolen from its rightful owners then. From the genocide of indigenous people whose lands we now live on, to the enslavement of black people on whose whip-scarred backs our young nation's economy was built, to the exploitation of Asian railroad workers who helped to connect all the parts of the country in the 1800s, Americans...particularly White Americans...today enjoy a disparity of prosperity because of yesterday's atrocities.
This video has monumentally increased my respect for Rod Sirling...and made me eager to re-watch his series, specifically in search of social metaphor (as later happened on Star Trek).

Good talk. Glad Rod was woke king during such racist times

So let's not sit around creating a narrative of social victimization. Rob knew what's up.

Rod Serling - the man who brought us The Twilight Zone. James Dickey - the man who brought us "squeal piggy squeal". (He wrote Deliverance)

Goosebumps. He was such a giant of thought and spirit. We miss you so much, sir.