“We don’t think the Canadian public is ready for a Black and white couple together,” a TSN executive told Hal Johnson
While the show’s signature light-hearted approach to healthy living scored big with viewers,about its more sombre origins: it turns out combating racism was the fitness show’s main goal when the couple created it in 1988.
“The higher-ups said that because I’m Black and ... because they already have a Black reporter, they don’t want to have two Black reporters,” he recalled. Johnson and McLeod decided to challenge racist attitudes and perceptions about couples of different races, by building in acceptance from the show’s early planning stages.
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