Jaleel White on feeling left out in the legacy of Black entertainment, saying, “If it’s not a hood story, it’s not a Black story,”

The most popular part of Family Matters is the daughter who went up stairs and came down a porn star

and the corny stage actor who wifed up Superhead

and some nerd in suspenders
But if she wasn't doing porn, nobody would care about her nor knew who she was since she wasn't on the show that long or at all with just seeing her go upstairs and never coming back.

She's still relevant because she's doing onlyfans to try to keep the attention on her but I'm sure if you asked anybody today who didn't grow up watching family matters, who she is, they wouldn't know.
 
nah people are attacking the show which is complete bs..damn near calling it white washed
the show was great for its time and it was killing white shows during its run
although i preferred martin and the other black shows they didnt come close to the success of family matters
basically if you go by the numbers he isnt lying
you agree that it wasn’t your fave show when you compare it to others but at the end of the day it had its time and went.. nig mad cause you won’t say his show is the best and that the reason is cause your standard is “hood”… now that sounds cacish
 
you agree that it wasn’t your fave show when you compare it to others but at the end of the day it had its time and went.. nig mad cause you won’t say his show is the best and that the reason is cause your standard is “hood”… now that sounds cacish


its just human nature bruh
we all want to be apart of the best
you would say your parties were the greatest and the cat that promoted against you would say differently
it is what it is but i still thought the show was great during my teen years

btw $5 tit suck youre a dirty dry pussy single mother bitch who fucks for wendys
go to your section 8 appointment bitch
 
nah people are attacking the show which is complete bs..damn near calling it white washed
the show was great for its time and it was killing white shows during its run
although i preferred martin and the other black shows they didnt come close to the success of family matters
basically if you go by the numbers he isnt lying

McDonald's sells a ton of hamburgers

and the show is a whitewashed bullshit show that had white writers that nobody cares about in 2024...that says everything about how it's perceived and it's lasting legacy
 
McDonald's sells a ton of hamburgers

and the show is a whitewashed bullshit show that had white writers that nobody cares about in 2024...that says everything about how it's perceived and it's lasting legacy

hold up you think the other shows had black writers?
 
The first issue is you can’t compare Family Matters to Living Single, it’s like comparing a Nickelodeon show to Friends. One show was family oriented while the other was for adults. The problem is we lump all things Black together. If you are to rank these shows in its appropriate categories, for Black family shows, Family Matters would rank behind Cosby.
 
he is partialy right he has been left out because there are at least 15 black shows that are better then family matters.
black-ish
grown-ish
cosby
different world
everybody hates chris
hanging with mister cooper
steve harvey
bernie mac
abbott elementry
girlfriends
fresh prince
wife and kids
jeffersons
the game
insecure

urkel needs to STFU before he has a metoo moment and those residuals dry up.
 
The first issue is you can’t compare Family Matters to Living Single, it’s like comparing a Nickelodeon show to Friends. One show was family oriented while the other was for adults. The problem is we lump all things Black together. If you are to rank these shows in its appropriate categories, for Black family shows, Family Matters would rank behind Cosby.
Exactly!!!!!!!!
 
its just human nature bruh
we all want to be apart of the best
you would say your parties were the greatest and the cat that promoted against you would say differently
it is what it is but i still thought the show was great during my teen years

btw $5 tit suck youre a dirty dry pussy single mother bitch who fucks for wendys
go to your section 8 appointment bitch
I’m actually humble.. I’ll tell you about the forefathers of the game and how I watched them and put my spin into my events.. I’ll tell u’ll I’ll make sure u’ll have fun at my events.. in fact I actually got into it with many ego driven promoters cause they would get mad if people considered my event was better or if they werent called number 1 , etc..I actually never cared about being called number 1 and rather just throw a great event where you felt you got your moneys worth and more and that the chicks made money.. I cared about consumer happiness and dancer happiness everything else didn’t matter.. that triggered others cause nigs were full of themselves and cared about dumbshit like perception.. nigs need trophies in order to feel accomplished I’m not 1 of them people.. smiles and good times made me felt like I did my job
 
he is partialy right he has been left out because there are at least 15 black shows that are better then family matters.
black-ish
grown-ish
cosby
different world
everybody hates chris
hanging with mister cooper
steve harvey
bernie mac
abbott elementry
girlfriends
fresh prince
wife and kids
jeffersons
the game
insecure

urkel needs to STFU before he has a metoo moment and those residuals dry up.

come on man lmao this list is ridiculous
urkel was trying to entertain the 8 yr old and the 80 year old
75% of your list didnt have that challlenge
 
I’m actually humble.. I’ll tell you about the forefathers of the game and how I watched them and put my spin into my events.. I’ll tell u’ll I’ll make sure u’ll have fun at my events.. in fact I actually got into it with many ego driven promoters cause they would get mad if people considered my event was better or if they were called number 1 , etc..I actually never cared about being called number 1 and rather just throw a great event where you felt you got your moneys worth and more and that the chicks made money.. I cared about consumer happiness and dancer happiness everything else didn’t matter.. that triggered others cause nigs were full of themselves and cared about dumbshit like perception.. nigs need trophies in order to feel accomplished I’m not 1 of them people.. smiles and good times made me felt like I did my job
gotdamnit man
ok
 
Why do black people always have to put black people against each other. in this case black shows vs black shows

you cant compare family matters to martin. theyre meant for two different audiences.

back then we looked at it as black shows ran shit...martin thursday nights and family matters friday nights tgif

judging family matters today and its messaging today is fucking stupid. it was gold for its time period

btw family matters was not white washed....they dealt with tons of black issues at the time

as for hood shows, i wonder if he means by todays' standards. back then we had decent representation of black life now its all hood bullshit
Ain’t his child half white? If your post nut euphoria is spent with your enemy it messes with your consciousness.
 
The first issue is you can’t compare Family Matters to Living Single, it’s like comparing a Nickelodeon show to Friends. One show was family oriented while the other was for adults. The problem is we lump all things Black together. If you are to rank these shows in its appropriate categories, for Black family shows, Family Matters would rank behind Cosby.
Nobody compared them he did.. this was his statement..nobody ever looked at family matters and put them in the same category as Martin and living singles that was him.. reason we having this thread cause his rant.. this his ego talking
 
Family Matters was not a, well written show and in past interviews White admitted that. He said how the white writers didn't know how to write authentic Black characters. He HIMSELF said they didn't know what to do until they introduced the Urkel character. They could identify with a nerdy annoying character and went out of their way to write for that character.
Where is the video of Estelle Rolle going into the writing room and exhibiting grace to the writers? How did John Amos approach the writers? How did Cosby approach the writers? Urkel wasn’t given that authority and he wasn’t grounded in blackness.

There’s a reason why I didn’t say his birth name and chose to use his character. Because he’s a fucking character.
 
i dont follow these peoples' lives bruh
and half white is black in america so that kind of pointless
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. How you look, where you’re from, and how you live. The reason why the cop used Light Skin is because he let the world know that son wasn’t really white-white. When I see a guy from Uzbekistan at the DMV, I know he sees himself as white even though he doesn’t look it, he isn’t from that region, and he ain’t definitely of the culture. But he believes it and he definitely believes the stuff he heard about us.
 
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. How you look, where you’re from, and how you live. The reason why the cop used Light Skin is because he let the world know that son wasn’t really white-white. When I see a guy from Uzbekistan at the DMV, I know he sees himself as white even though he doesn’t look it, he isn’t from that region, and he ain’t definitely of the culture. But he believes it and he definitely believes the stuff he heard about us.
what the fuck are you talking about
 
come on man lmao this list is ridiculous
urkel was trying to entertain the 8 yr old and the 80 year old
75% of your list didnt have that challlenge
this probably explains why it has not aged well, Cosby was writen for the 8 to 80 year old and they pulled it off. The urkel show was not that good, how likely will you watch a episode of the urkel show.
 
Urkel is mad because he’s our generation’s Jimmy Walker. But instead of hating himself he feels more comfortable hating black people. Byron Allen used to write for Jimmy. And neither are funny.
from that clip i dont think hes hates black people man
stop the hyperbole
he just wants to be remembered by his own people.
he admits that when it comes to family shows people give him his love
 
this probably explains why it has not aged well, Cosby was writen for the 8 to 80 year old and they pulled it off. The urkel show was not that good, how likely will you watch a episode of the urkel show.
family matters was on tv for 9 years
they pulled it off bruh
again the excessive hyperbole in here is crazy
 
nah people are attacking the show which is complete bs..damn near calling it white washed
the show was great for its time and it was killing white shows during its run
although i preferred martin and the other black shows they didnt come close to the success of family matters
basically if you go by the numbers he isnt lying

Agreed, but just because you put up numbers dont mean you're culturally relevant...aka Drake

Let me get outta here. @playahaitian gonna send the goons :beat::lol:
 
Agreed, but just because you put up numbers dont mean you're culturally relevant...aka Drake

Let me get outta here. @playahaitian gonna send the goons :beat::lol:

oh i agree that the show wasnt culturally relevant
but i wouldnt say it was white washed either
the show was based on a geek that was in love with his neighbor
why are we looking for black nationalism from that shit
why can't we just have mindless entertainment like any other group of people?
the cosby show broke down the doors so that we could just have regular entertainment too
 
Agreed, but just because you put up numbers dont mean you're culturally relevant...aka Drake

Let me get outta here. @playahaitian gonna send the goons :beat::lol:

disappointment-drake.gif
 
oh i agree that the show wasnt culturally relevant
but i wouldnt say it was white washed either
the show was based on a geek that was in love with his neighbor
why are we looking for black nationalism from that shit
why can't we just have mindless entertainment like any other group of people?
the cosby show broke down the doors so that we could just have regular entertainment too

^^^

Family matters is hugely crossover popular AND culturally relevant

That generation unlike now?

had the bandwidth, self awareness and confidence to do both.

And also looking at ratings isn't the only or best way to gauge impact back then.
 
he is partialy right he has been left out because there are at least 15 black shows that are better then family matters.
black-ish
grown-ish
cosby
different world
everybody hates chris
hanging with mister cooper
steve harvey
bernie mac
abbott elementry
girlfriends
fresh prince
wife and kids
jeffersons
the game
insecure

urkel needs to STFU before he has a metoo moment and those residuals dry up.

Hanging with Mr. Cooper better than family matters? :lol: i dont really remember anything memorable about that show unless they had guest stars on there and Holly Robinson Peete.
 
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