they ended up blachekish. the father feels they are losing their roots. i want one of my kids to be black so i can love it. where the cosby show is safe, here s us living every day. the black-ish family is unapologetic about the blackness. next saturday, when you turn 13, you re becoming a man, too. a black man. i throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. that doesn t sound as fun. no, it does not. black-ish was good at talking about social issues we hasn t had since norman lear. that leads up to one day at a time. i get it. we re cuban. it follows three generations of latinas.
else. fresh off the boat made a major impact in proving to the industry that a show like this can be successful. still to this day i get people on the street who come up to me in tears saying how meaningful it was seeing themselves represented 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 unbelievably charismatic black dude. this mixed race woman is my wife. black-ish is a sitcom that is interested in talking about topics of racial identity in ways that television sometimes is uncomfortable about discussing. you re not serious about naming our kid devante, are you? i want a strong black name. oh, boy. because we ve given our kids white names and they ve all what? 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 could love it. whereas the cosby show was a much more safe here s us living every day, the black-ish family is very unapologetic about their blackness in ways that hadn t been seen like on primetime television before. so next saturday, when you turn 13, you re becoming a man too. a black man. because i m throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. that does not sound as fun. no, it does not. black-ish was a show that was really good at talking about individual social issues in a way we hadn t really seen since norman lear. and that leads us to the reboot of norman lear s 1970s classic one day at a time. i get it, we re cuban. acucar. it follows three generations of latinas.
fresh off the boat made a major impact in proving to the industry that it could be successful. i get people on the street who come up to me in tears, saying how meaningful it was, seeing themselves representative and feeling like you are part of america. a part of a progression, representation in tv. okay. i m your standard, incredibly handsome, unbelievably charismatic black dude. black-ish is a sitcom that is interested in topics of racial identity, that ways that television is uncomfortable about discussing. you re not serious about naming our kid devante, are you? i want a strong, black name. we gave our kids white names and
- the first time in the more than 200-year history of this country, an african american will be the chief executive. how far we have come. - america has changed to the point now where black-ish is telling these unapologetically black stories. they have that freedom because we have changed as a culture. - [andre] sometimes i feel like a bit of an oddity. - and if you look to your left, you ll see the mythical and majestic black family. - it talks about the so called post-racial version (laughs) of being black. - the whole show begins, saying, we moved to a white neighborhood, but we still got to hold on to our culture. - this is our culture. - this ain t our culture. we black, not african. africans don t even like us. - dad, can i go? - there was a lot of conversation about what to call it. black-ish was the preferred title, and the creator kenya really supported and felt like sets off a little bit of a firestorm, and you get people talking about it. you ve got a man who s got his