Black-ish Season 2 premieres tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Given Black-ish’s general disinterest in engaging with its cultural examinations on a deep, engaging level in its first season, how “The Word” plays out is an extremely promising sign for the show. We should all be trying to save the planet!
TV show you’d love to cameo on:Law & Order: SVU or White Collar (which needs to be un-canceled) so I can be the newest white-collar criminal…
Fishburne, who is also an executive producer of the series, added in a separate interview: “It’s part of the legacy of slavery, and it’s one of the things carried from that era that is unfortunately still with us”. You see, Dre believes that black people should be able to use the n-word. Jewish kids get to go to Israel, black kids get to say this. “Black Twitter is a powerful force and we want them to weigh in”. In this episode, when Bow questions where Jack would get the idea to say the N word as freely as he did, we’re treated to a flashback scene of Dre and Jack rapping “Gold Digger” in the vehicle, expletives (albeit, bleeped out) and all. Is it simply an ugly, hate-filled word that no one – not even black people – should ever use?
“I think that’s really what our show is about and what it does so well”, said Ross. “It’s insane. Jerrod [Carmichael] is a really good friend of mine”. I’ve noticed that a lot of current teenagers have a different view of the word and who can use it that leaves older generations with a bad taste in their mouths.
“Personally, I do not use it”, Ross said. Pops claims it’s something he “only said to separate myself from the rest of “you people”; I wouldn’t go so far as to say he used the term out of hatred or the strict belief that he was better, but on more of a case-by-case basis to knock them down a peg when they were fucking up. As long as the liberals like you, of course. For Archie, it was passed on from his abusive father, who freely called black people the n-word, so he does, too. When one white man tries to jump in, his white peers try their best to shut him up. Like his star, he struggles with whom can use the word and why. Both families are African-Americans.
3) Police Officers.
I love how this scene illustrates the hypocrisy in disallowing “negro” and “colored” as references to black people yet highlights how two of the most prominent black advocacy groups in America still have those words in their titles.
Because, as “THE Word”, makes clear, it is a personal decision. Just say black.
The last memorable programs to make a massive run on national television depicting accomplished and aspirational black families were The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Cosby Show. “We felt like this was the time to explore, but we have our interesting way to do it”. On the episode titled, “The Word”, airing Wednesday, september 23, Jack, portrayed by Brown, performs a song at a school talent show with a controversial lyric that leads to his possible expulsion from school.
Think about it. Paula Deen says it and catches a little flack, but then in turn, gets $100 million in funding.
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“It takes place now and Michael is grown up and looking back on his life”, Barris said. By the time she’s calling people for support in saving Jack from being expelled, it’s her episode completely.
