COMMUNITY Fair/ Foul: Are BLK folks currently portrayed in enough of a positive light on Television/Streaming to you right now?

The Lonious Monk said:
I don't know about sitcoms, but since my kids are pretty young, I've seen a lot of children's TV in the last few years. There's a lot more shows that center around black kids, and a lot more shows with black kids as smart or hard working or wise that I remember from the past. It's not so much built on stereotypes. If I had one complaint, it would be that black boys don't seem to be portrayed to the same extent as black girls and black fathers aren't as present as black mothers in a lot of the shows. That might not be true across the board, but it is the impression I came away with from the shows my girls watched. That's not to say black males aren't portrayed well too. It's just that all the shows seemed to have the black girls as strong leaders, smart, or demonstrating some other good quality. While it was a mixed bag for the boys.
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Yeah my oldest, 9, got a bunch of shows he watches that have little Black kids in them doing all sorts of shit. Got my dvr full of them episodes recorded.
 
AP4.0 said:
I watched the same clip and didn't think her complaint was exclusive to sitcoms but black representation in general

If anything,I would push back and say those shows she's putting on a pedestal didn't even really show a lot of the many complexities of the black experience

Outside of an ep here and there, by and large, those shows were very surface level
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If the Fresh Prince came out now about a rich Black republican family people would kill it. They wouldn't even give it a shot.
 
Just got chopped up and my barber had that Fresh Prince remake playing and it was my first time watching it

Lmaoooooooooooooooo
 
southsil4lil said:
Terrible

The acting, story and writing in these shows are so bad and over the top
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That's funny because my wife watched it for the first time when she was getting her locs tightened. She came back talking about her and the chick that did her hair thought it was good. I watched one episode and it was after Will got kidnapped and Jeffrey saved him and then came back like he just been through some gangsta ish. I was like "Nah bruh." lol
 
The Lonious Monk said:
That's funny because my wife watched it for the first time when she was getting her locs tightened. She came back talking about her and the chick that did her hair thought it was good. I watched one episode and it was after Will got kidnapped and Jeffrey saved him and then came back like he just been through some gangsta ish. I was like "Nah bruh." lol
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To be fair jumping in a show coming off a cliffhanger in it's last season is a wild place to start watching lol
 
The Lonious Monk said:
That's funny because my wife watched it for the first time when she was getting her locs tightened. She came back talking about her and the chick that did her hair thought it was good. I watched one episode and it was after Will got kidnapped and Jeffrey saved him and then came back like he just been through some gangsta ish. I was like "Nah bruh." lol
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MrBeef said:
this is such a wild sentence for a fresh prince reboot
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Realizing who each character was from the original had me dying
 
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