and feeling like you are a part of america. it s a part of a progression of representation in tv. okay. so i m just your standard, regular, old incredibly handsome, unbelievable charismatic, black dude. now, this drooling pigment challenged mix-raced women is my wife. blackish is a family sitcom that is interested in talking about topics of racial identity in ways television is sometimes uncomfortable about discussing. you re not serious about naming our kid devante, are you? i want a strong, black name. okay? because we have given our kids white names and they ve all ended up blackish. the father feels like his family is losing touch with their roots. and he wants them to sort of know their heritage. i just want at least one of my kids to end up being black so i can love it. whereas, the cosby show was a much more safe kind of here is us living every day. the blackish family is very
of representation in tv. okay. so i m just your standard, regular, old incredibly handsome, unbelievable charismatic, black dude. now, this drooling pigment challenged mix-raced women is my wife. blackish is a family sitcom that is interested in talking about topics of racial identity in ways television is sometimes uncomfortable about discussing. you re not serious about naming our kid devante, are you? i want a strong, black name. okay? because we have given our kids white names and they ve all ended up blackish. the father feels like his family is losing touch with their roots. and he wants them to sort of know their heritage. i just want at least one of my kids to end up being black so i can love it. whereas, the cosby show was a much more safe kind of here is us living every day. the blackish family is very unapologetic about their blackness, in ways that really hadn t been seen, like, on
Paul Mooney to younger generations via his now-iconic
Chappelle’s Show, has vowed to uphold the legacy of the legendary comedian, who died early Wednesday.
Chappelle was caught on camera by TMZ outside of the Soho Grand Hotel in New York City later Wednesday, and he spoke of the man who found mainstream success as a writer for fellow comedy mainstay
Richard Pryor.
Dave Chappelle (left) has vowed to uphold the legacy of legendary comedian-writer Paul Mooney (right), who died early Wednesday. (Photos by Sean Rayford/Getty Images and Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images for TV Land)
“I want to shout out every comedian on Earth, one of the best that ever did it, paved the way today, his legacy will live forever,” he said of Mooney. “He did everything from