Race is getting to be a bit tense, no? The Draper’s let Carla go; Hollace, the elevator man explained to Pete that he and his friends have “other problems” to worry about instead of fretting between an RCA or Admiral.

Additionally, the assassination of Medgar Evers is referenced at beginning of “The Fog” and you can hear news footage about his death playing on a TV set toward the end the of the episode.

Ten years before the Civil Rights’s activist was shot dead by a white supremacist in his drive, Edgars said this about his choice to remain in Mississippi despite its brutal inequities,

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don’t choose to live anywhere else. There’s land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I’m going to do it some day.” 

Remember last time we were in the Old South was at Roger’s derby party? Further reinforcing that Sterling and crew are going to be bulldozed by the coming racial upheavals. 

A violent race riot will break out in Harlem in one year. In two years, the city of Watts will be burnt to the ground. Race riots will roll through many of the cities listed on Pete Campbell’s sales report.

And It will take 31 years for a jury to convict the the man who killed Medgar Evers.

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