We have a good-sized celebration here in Milwaukee, but over the years, the young 'uns try to morph it into a Black Spring Break/Freaknik type of event.
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That was Grandpa Barris girlfriend Tischina > Kj Smith
yup that’s her
In Pittsburgh during my teen years The “urban” radio station would throw a Juneteenth celebration every year. I don’t think a lot people knew what it was most just wanted to go get at females/males.
"How much are these chips?"
I will need to go back and watch the entire season, but I think that was the funniest episode. It was also nice to see other writers/directors/producers show up and support.
Yeah it was the funniest episode. It's still good after that but not as funny.
I liked how Tyler checked him over his convo with his daughter too
The thing is we all know the parents that are friends with their kids or the parents are still trying to act young and that's the exact behavior you see consistently from that type of relationship.
yeah, him calling everyone "dude" was annoying.Yup, you're right about that shit. And the wife is Bro and Man, etc.
I finished watching the show this afternoon.
It’s a good series and it’s well done. It basically depicts the life style of a Black Family that is extremely well off financially and privileged.
They do deal with racism that affects them, but the level of racism they deal with is not what Black folks in predominantly low income areas deal with. They only dealt with ignorant comments coming from whites like Kenya’s friend commenting on the car, the white chick at work and the flight attendant on the private jet trying to get info on how can these Black folks afford this jet. That part was funny.
They live in a affluent area in Los Angeles, their kids go to the best private schools money can buy and money is not a issue with them.
Thru out the episodes you can see how spending money is nothing to Kenya and Joy. Kenya just goes out and purchases a super exotic car, jewelry, paintings and takes the family on a trip to Fiji on a private jet and rents out a island.
Joya makes swag bags for a children’s party with expensive jewelry and other trinkets. The wardrobe of the family is expensive as fuck. Kenya thru out the show is sporting expensive and fashionable athletic track suits and sneakers. Joyas outfits and the kids are expensive also.
And at the beginning you see the money Kenya spent on his daughters film project.
I could understand a lot of what they presented on the series, but I can easily see Black folks whose world revolves around a 50 mile radius from their home will not get and understand the show.
Hopefully this gets picked up for another season.
It’s a good series and it’s well done. It basically depicts the life style of a Black Family that is extremely well off financially and privileged.
They do deal with racism that affects them, but the level of racism they deal with is not what Black folks in predominantly low income areas deal with. They only dealt with ignorant comments coming from whites like Kenya’s friend commenting on the car, the white chick at work and the flight attendant on the private jet trying to get info on how can these Black folks afford this jet. That part was funny.
They live in a affluent area in Los Angeles, their kids go to the best private schools money can buy and money is not a issue with them.
Thru out the episodes you can see how spending money is nothing to Kenya and Joy. Kenya just goes out and purchases a super exotic car, jewelry, paintings and takes the family on a trip to Fiji on a private jet and rents out a island.
Joya makes swag bags for a children’s party with expensive jewelry and other trinkets. The wardrobe of the family is expensive as fuck. Kenya thru out the show is sporting expensive and fashionable athletic track suits and sneakers. Joyas outfits and the kids are expensive also.
And at the beginning you see the money Kenya spent on his daughters film project.
I could understand a lot of what they presented on the series, but I can easily see Black folks whose world revolves around a 50 mile radius from their home will not get and understand the show.
Hopefully this gets picked up for another season.
OK two things that's killing me on episodes 7 and 8:
The part where the flight attendant is trying to figure out what they do for a living... lol I've seen that happen with my sister and her husband... they're both over 6 figures a year... she literally told this one nosey ass cac that her husband was a drug dealer... the bitch turned stop sign red and walked off... but my sister wasn't lying tho... he's a pharmaceutical salesman...
And him talking about the sun trying to kill white people.... nigga I'm DYING!
The part where the flight attendant is trying to figure out what they do for a living... lol I've seen that happen with my sister and her husband... they're both over 6 figures a year... she literally told this one nosey ass cac that her husband was a drug dealer... the bitch turned stop sign red and walked off... but my sister wasn't lying tho... he's a pharmaceutical salesman...
And him talking about the sun trying to kill white people.... nigga I'm DYING!
I'm not sure if the fact the family is affluent will keep people from watching. While you didn't necessarily see the spending, the Fresh Prince of Bel air, Real Househusbands of Hollywood and Empire kind of give regular people an idea of how affluent blacks live. You also have to take into account white shows that show affluent families.
I think the show in and of itself may not draw in a big black audience. The dry humor aside black people are kind of trained to gravitate toward shows of us struggling, over coming adversity and more or less based in reality ( no black space pirates). I don't know to many people who talked about Blackish. That doesn't mean they didn't watch Blackish, but I constantly heard about Power. The crazy thing is not everyone was a drug dealer or lived close to that lifestyle, but some how Power still resonated with a large black audience. Black AsFuck is literally a copy of Blackish with respectfully a less talented cast and I'm not sure kids using profanity will bring in the black audience.However, I do think there are conflicts within the family a lot of people can relate to outside of money.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the series and agree it should get a second season, but it wouldn't surprise me if the black audience doesn't turn out in high numbers.
It would be nice to see a Black Succession or Silicon Valley. What I mean is a show about blacks who didn't come into money by music, sports, drug dealing. Just like A Different World encouraged black youth to attend college, these types of shows can show them that being an entertainer is not the only way to attain wealth or like BAF you can work behind the scenes in entertainment and be just as wealthy as celebrities/frontline entertainers.
I'll take your word that it's a good show, but I'll pass. I'm tired of seeing that shit, honestly.
The Father kind of puts you in mind of a Woody Allen like character, dry humor with shots of comedy.
I fuck with Black-ish, so I decided to watch this show. And it feels like more Black-ish but different humor and without Deon Cole.
Still gonna watch the whole season because I'm running out of streaming options. Ozark is the only thing saving me and I'm trying to space out those episodes.
Watch this Korean series called Kingdom. Trust me you will like it. I recommend watching it in Korean w/subtitles.
Episode is 5 is definitely the high point. That Tyler Perry conversation needed to happen for a lot of reasons. I can't help but wonder if it was Tyler's idea to check him on his language around his daughter. I have to admit as a parent of teenagers it wasn't something I was comfortable with but I also know little stuff like language that is probably not going to change your kids's life trajectory if you take care of them in other ways.
I don't see how you can like Black-ish and NOT like this. It's REAL world version of Blackish. I do agree that Bumper Robinson has been a poor alternative to Dee Ray Davids from the ABCs show.
I don't see how you can like Black-ish and NOT like this. It's REAL world version of Blackish. I do agree that Bumper Robinson has been a poor alternative to Dee Ray Davids from the ABCs show.
Yeah from the beginning my wife had a disconnect with the way the kids were speaking to him and was saying it was unrealistic for black parents to have their kids speaking to them like that.
I rationalized that it was because they were extremely wealthy liberals involved in the entertainment industry in California and they adopted similar habits to the rich CAC's in their peer group, and at some point they might come across a black person with a more old school conservative mentality who will be shocked at that shit.
Sure enough Tyler Perry comes along and shares the same shock as those of us in the Audience. That was smart, self aware writing...
Really enjoyed this show
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I'm on episode 2 and either I just can't relate to this shit or it just ain't funny. Maybe both. Oh well, I'm a keep watching cause ain't shit else to do.
yeah I like it and your right about this kind of dry/woody allen type of comedy. its not for everyone
i just like seeing successful rich black families so digging those two aspects of this show
never seen black-ish though
Rashida ended up having a kid by this cac ....smh ....
as long as she's not shitting on black men, why do ya'll care? serious question
Rashida ended up having a kid by this cac ....smh ....
What ever gave you the impression that wasn't going to happen?
Quincy has 4 or 5 daughters...at the least lol. Dude has a bunch of kids by a bunch of different white women.
I think the issue is for a long time she played the racially ambiguous or slightly tan white girl for most of her career. But now that she's aging put of young white Hollywood she is now playing to her blackness to stay working or relevant....
In short she was cool appearing not black and getting all the white roles, but now that she's not young and pretty enough to pull it off she's "falling back" onto her biracial / blackness.
Eh, that's one way of looking at it. Don't know if it holds up, though. For all we know she wasn't getting cast for "black" roles BECAUSE of the fact she can pass for white. When Hollywood wants to fill that token role, they likely want the person to be recognizably black . And yes, they historically prefer light skinned or biracial women but most of them can't pass for straight up white. Just like usually when tv or movies cast a latina role they are not going to cast someone like Amara La Negra.
As for her falling back on being biracial: she used to be on a show called Boston Public 20 years ago. Her character was biracial...and this was back when she was young.
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