On this episode, the Johnson clan is sitting around waiting to hear whether a police officer is going to be indicted for killing an unarmed black man – a case that sadly has several antecedents in recent history, most notably Michael Brown, whose death sparked the unrest in Ferguson in 2014. While Rainbow (who goes by the nickname 'Bow), would rather shield the twins and let them continue to “hold on to their innocence and be kids a little while longer,” Dre says,“They are not just children, they are black children and they need to know the world they are living in.”. #blackish, That last monologue from dre? The cast of Black-ish appear in an episode about a highly publicized court case involving alleged police brutality and a black teenager. Luckily his dad is there to give the racist cops a piece of his mind. My Favorite scene of the night! ", In the end, the family ends up going to the protest together. Freddie Gray. While Black-ish patriarch Dre (Anthony Anderson) wants to teach his children to be afraid of the police, his wife Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) wants her children to respect their authority and have trust that the judicial process works. While that dilemma is definitely the crux of the episode, the family also embraces different facets of the issue at large. The episode also makes sure to break up some of the heaviness with humor, like Jack (Miles Brown) thinking that "unarmed" means having no arms or Grandma Ruby (Jenifer Lewis) skipping out on getting Chipotle for the family in favor of food that "Sticks in your stomach" so that the food in the fridge can be used as weapons (because there is a protest after all). Several other episodes would deal with the police’s treatment of black citizens, including an installment where Will (Will Smith) and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) get mistaken for car thieves. It definitely hit home with many viewers. The same year, The Boondocks’ character Uncle Ruckus gets shot dozens of times by a cadre of white cops after doing nothing more than reaching for his ID, reminiscent of the shooting of Amadou Diallo in 1999. Diff’rent Strokes brought attention to child sexual abuse in the 80s, Ellen DeGeneres finally coming out in the 90s, Scandal dealt with a Ferguson-related storyline. I got emotionally RKO'd outta nowhere!!! When the citizens riot after a young man is beaten by police, Black Dynamite gets hit in the head with a brick and has a hallucination right out of the Wiz, complete with police officers that are literal pigs and a wizard played by Magic Johnson. As it has done in the past, Black-ish takes the various viewpoints of its characters and argues different sides of the debate, which allows for many more shades of grey than the typically heavy-handed “very special episode” usually allows. Ok, now I'm in tears #blackish, Zoey (Yara Shahidi) who seems checked out from the issues for most of the episode eventually makes a statement I think many can relate to, and not just the teenage generation. ABC’s hit sitcom Black-ish is no stranger to taking on hot button issues and some of its finest hours (well, half hours) have focused on topics like gun control and the N-word. After that, the topic was mostly put on the shelf, but some shows continued to go there. The family's discussion touches on everything from Sandra Bland and Freddie Gray, to the Ta-Nahesi Coates book "Between the World and Me" (which Andre Jr. is reading), to the O.J. Sandra Bland. The Wednesday night episode of the ABC show “Black-ish” addressed the issue of police brutality with questions, a little humor, and some hope. Just remember when Maude got an abortion in the 70s, when Diff’rent Strokes brought attention to child sexual abuse in the 80s, or Ellen DeGeneres finally coming out in the 90s. While Black-ish is the most recent show to tackle this difficult subject, it is certainly not the first. In October, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ripped a story from the headlines for A Nation Divided which again focused on an unarmed black teen shot by police, but this was complicated by Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) being an officer herself and not knowing which side to take. "I don't think the world is as broken as you do, Dre, but something's got to change," Bow says. In 2006, Everybody Hates Chris had an episode called Everybody Hates Jail in which Chris (Tyler James Williams) deals with racial profiling. While many of these recent episodes have been sobering and serious, there is no precedent for Adult Swim’s Black Dynamite, which put together an hour-long musical special called The Wizard of Watts featuring an all-star cast (Eryka Badu, Tyler the Creator, JB Smoove) and a plot that is – well, it sure is something. Thank you #Blackish for this episode. Obama ran on hope. Sitcoms have a long, proud legacy of the “very special episode”. Family Matters had an episode in 1994 called Good Cop, Bad Cop where Sergeant Carl Winslow’s (Reginald VelJohnson) son Eddie (Darius McCrary) is pulled over and roughed up by some cops for little to no reason. And our children need to know that that’s the world they live in.”. One of the most poignant moments of the episode, however, is when Dre gives a monologue about the Obama inauguration after Bow says she wants her children to still have hope: "Oh, so you wanna talk about hope, ‘Bow? On Wednesday, Black-ish is going to enter into an elite club of very special episodes: shows that have taken on the topic of police brutality. The Wednesday night episode of the ABC show “Black-ish” addressed the issue of police brutality with questions, a little humor, and some hope. Simpson trial. Tell me you weren’t worried that someone was gonna snatch that hope away from us like they always do. And we felt like maybe, just maybe, we got out of that bad place and made it to a good place," he started off. This was the rare drama that tried to give the police perspective to the story. !Come All The Way Thru @JeniferLewis #blackish pic.twitter.com/6M94V5RB0x. The latest episode, which puts the family firmly in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, is not the first show to tackle black Americans’ relationships with police, Last modified on Fri 12 Jun 2020 12.13 BST. You know the ones, when a comedy takes on a social issue of the day and tries to change people’s opinions between the squawking of the laugh track. Black-ish, of course, takes a much more measured tone (it is on ABC, after all) but deserves credit for smuggling this subject into America’s dens and family rooms, in the grand tradition of very special episodes. She admits to being confused and lost: "Everyone I love has been talking about it all night, and I don't know what the answer is. Sometimes it takes humour to put these things into perspective or, in the case of Black Dynamite, make them so completely absurd that the fact that police behaviour like this continues in America seems ludicrous. That is the real world, ‘Bow. In the wake of the Rodney King trial, several sitcoms took on police brutality. While everyone in the family seems to have a strong opinion on what's happening, Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) can’t seem to agree on how to address the issue with their youngest children. This is the age of #BlackLivesMatter and sometimes there is no better way to get a message out to the American public than secreting it in one of their favorite sitcoms. On Wednesday, Black-ish is going to enter into an elite club of very special episodes: shows that have taken on the topic of police brutality. The episode is set with the Johnsons sitting in their living room watching CNN coverage of a case involving police brutality against an unarmed teenager in Los Angeles and waiting for a grand jury indictment. Tell me you weren’t terrified when you saw that. Dre's monologue on Obama's inauguration spoke the truth about what every single black person was feeling at that moment #Blackish #BHM, Dre's monologue really reached down into my spirit and yanked out some tears. Ruby stays home with the twins and of course she's prepared. "It's scary, but I think we should go down there.". With the recent attention paid to the subject, television has responded not just with special episodes on comedies, but on dramas as well. This one is no different, giving voice not only to Dre and Rainbow, but also their children and the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose book Between the World and Me figures prominently in the debate. "...And we saw him, get out of that limo, and walk alongside of it, and wave to that crowd. A later episode features a joke that presages the “hands up, don’t shoot” chant of recent Black Lives Matter protest. The … Saying their names and all. The episode titled, “Hope” centers around the Johnson family trying to decide how to explain to their tween twins, Jack and Diane, what police brutality is. Last March in an episode called The Lawn Chair, Scandal dealt with a Ferguson-related storyline where a father was grappling with the death of his son who was shot by police and Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) was called in to help prevent a riot, only to sympathise more with the father than the police force she was working for. Remember when he got elected? In 1992, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air featured an episode called Will Gets Committed where the family goes to clean up after the Los Angeles riots.
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