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- [marla] the jeffersons had something for every segment of society. - yeah. - government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. - america was changing. you re in the middle of reaganomics and trickle down economies. - the social policies of that era were really splintering black families and the black community in this country. - in the early 1980s, the landscape of primetime television was dominated by these hour-long dramas. some of them were very gritty. - one of the things people were all saying was the comedy on television was dead. ( the bill cosby show theme song) - but then there s this juggernaut of a show in the form of a black family comedy, and it completely reinvigorates the sitcom genre. - i am your father. i brought you in this world and i ll take you out. (audience laughs) (soft upbeat music) - the cosby show absolutely created a phenomenon of must-see tv. - the cosby show is consider the pinnacle black sitcom. gives you a black family tha
at the table for most of us with melanin, you gotta fight. - we have a person like tyler perry who owns a studio, and that s remarkable in and of itself because, in 1950, you could have never have imagined that a black man would dominate this space so thoroughly as tyler perry has. (upbeat music) - i think the black ownership of content will disrupt the media ecosystem because we won t have gatekeepers who are beholden to the status quo or traditional media companies. - a perfect example of black ownership changing the game, lee daniels and the wonder years. - i loved the wonder years growing up. love it even more now that they ve rebooted it and they ve said it in montgomery, alabama cause it reminded me of my childhood. - lee daniels acquired the rights to the original wonder years because he wanted to tell a story about the black middle-class experience during the late 60s.