“We never saw affluent Black people on TV, except for 'The Jeffersons,” said McCormick of San Diego, who works in communications and as a journalism instructor.
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He compared “black-ish” to another comedy of the time. Jerry McCormick grew up watching Bob Newhart's sitcoms and “Good Times” in the 1970s and '80s, among others. “I died laughing, because the parents at my daughter's school are amazing, but we often leave that place thinking, ‘Oh, my goodness, I hope our daughter’s loving it, at least," Harper said.
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One of the white parents offers her help, which the show reimagines as code for, “I think you're going to fail and you're over your head,” as Harper recalled the scene. Rainbow “Bow” Johnson, played by Tracee Ellis Ross, is being a supportive parent and volunteers for a private school fundraiser. It also has a sharper take on race relations, Harper said. He remembers feeling the same way about criticism of “The Cosby Show,” a 20th-century TV depiction of a well-off African American family.īut “black-ish” has a distinctly more layered view of race, starting with the title that reflects dad Andre “Dre” Johnson's fear that affluence is separating his children from their ethnic identity. “It's not real to them, but this is my everyday,” said Harper, an educator-turned-businessman in Dallas who is the grandson and son of Black professionals. The pandemic turned him into a binge-viewing convert, one who swats away online carping that the show isn't “real.” “I remember when it first came out, I was concerned that it was going to be either serious and off-putting, or really sad and comical,” drawing on stereotypical characters that may or may not exist in life, said viewer Onaje Harper.
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The series was a network TV rarity: A depiction of a prosperous, tight-knit family of color, the Johnsons, with Black creators shaping their stories. EDT Tuesday (midnight EDT on Hulu), followed by ABC News' “black-ish: A Celebration” on ABC.
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Talk to admirers of ’black-ish” and the same seems probable for the series, which airs its half-hour finale at 9 p.m. Shows such as “The Brady Bunch,” “Good Times” and “Full House” were part of their viewers' coming of age, with the shows and their characters beloved well beyond their original runs. Sitcoms, especially family-centric ones, are more likely to be enshrined in viewers’ memories than museums. To put our show in that, it meant a lot to me," he said. The Smithsonian, as a brand, is tied to things that are lasting, that are part of what the core DNA of this world is.