...I guess my parents didn’t want me to think that there were stupid/racist people in the world at that young an age.
I'm confused.
Was there some discrimination between the black and white televisions vs the color televisions?
Were the televisions kept segregated in different areas of the store?
Are you suggesting that the salesman tried to sell your father a black and white television but represented it as a color television?
The first two might be a very odd example of discrimination (of course you usually group items together in "like" categories) but the third might be simply mean the salesman was a con artist.
The salesman could try to rip you off due to race, but I can't determine that without knowing what your race is. Then again, if you are white, he's just a con artist. If you are black, it most certainly racism. That's what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton told me so it must be true.
Did you where sneakers that day? Perhaps he was a shoe-ist.
All the TVs were in one area of the showroom. Back in the '60s, I remember that there was very little color programming on TVs till later in the day or early evening, depending on what stations were early adopters of color cameras and technology. So you could watch a color TV in the morning at your house and most shows were in B&W and then when you got home from work, you could see a few stations in color.
Yes, the salesman showed my dad a B&W TV and told him it was color.