“I think the episode on busing is so uncomfortable because it exposes a fault line in ZOOM’s celebration of diversity and multiculturalism,” Paris said. Some other ZOOMraps were focused on the question of prejudice, but the discussions tended to be about evergreen issues ( what’s it like to go to the hospital?).
It’s a confusing moment, as the busing controversy doesn’t get a direct explanation, and one wonders what young viewers unapprised of the news might have thought. In it, one of the ZOOMers, from South Boston, voices a segregationist viewpoint, and the others push back at her proclamation eventually, she agrees with others in the group that people will need to learn to live in peace. The clip above is an interesting outlier: a ZOOMrap about the school busing controversy in Boston, which came to a violent crescendo in 1974, during the show’s fourth season. Generally, ZOOM dealt with issues of race, gender, and difference by modeling inclusion.
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