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gollygee

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2. Do you mean "Black-ish" ?

Reply to NCTraveler (Reply #1)

Fri May 25, 2018, 08:28 AM

May 2018

If you read the article, you'll see they use that as an example of how to do this well and how it's different from what other sitcoms are doing. I could only quote 4 paragraphs so that isn't included here but it's early in the article.

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American sitcoms are dealing with race more than ever, but too often the jokes reinforce stereotypes [View all] gollygee May 2018 OP

Stereotypes are a comedians comfort food. Always has been. NCTraveler May 2018 #1

Do you mean "Black-ish" ? gollygee May 2018 #2

Thank you. NCTraveler May 2018 #3

I believe the creative team behind Blackish is largely made up of POC gollygee May 2018 #5

The article is frustrating in that it only provides, what, two examples? Blue_Adept May 2018 #4

There are probably lots of examples if they wanted to make a longer article gollygee May 2018 #6

Yep; I wasn't looking for balance but there's not much to the article Blue_Adept May 2018 #7