One episode ran with the stereotype that blacks can’t swim, which Dre objects to even though he cannot another revolved around the culture of the barbershop, and on Feb. Times about the show, her character and dreaming about calculus - yes, math. Yara Shahidi, who plays teenage Zoey on the ABC sitcom “black-ish,” talks with the L.A. Barris’ widespread declaration that he wanted to write a show about a black family as opposed to a family that just happened to be black seemed initially bogged down by the broad goofiness of Dad/Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) as he worried that his kids weren’t “black enough” and poked fun at his biracial, and far more sensible, wife Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross).
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Comedy pilots are notoriously difficult - even the most beloved and critically acclaimed series take time, often entire seasons, to find their rhythm and “black-ish” was no exception. Which, frankly, they didn’t get, at least not at first. “Can you imagine the furor of a show, “Whiteish”! Racism at highest level?”) Petitions were circulated, essays written, boycotts called for, and white television critics (which is to say most television critics including me) bit their nails and hoped for the best. Many black Americans were immediately offended (what’s with the “-ish”?), many white Americans were immediately outraged (“How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled “Blackish”?,” tweeted Donald Trump. So it’s important to remember the widespread conniption fit “black-ish” caused well before its premiere in 2014 when no one on God’s green Earth knew What To Think of that title. “Black-ish” isn’t just a modern and upscale answer to “Good Times ” it’s a modern melding of “Good Times” with “All in the Family.” With a remarkable second season that managed such incendiary topics as the N-word, gun ownership, police brutality and religion with great humor and humanity, “black-ish” has joined the Lear-led pantheon of socially significant comedies. Kenya Barris’ decision to end the second season of “black-ish” with a loving spoof of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking inner-city comedy “Good Times” wasn’t just a great idea, it was a much-deserved victory lap.
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