The Logical One said 🔗
I like how that’s the bar.
Hey. We look like humans.
White people got Ozark. Peaky Blinders.
Spanish people got Money Heist, lowkey Better call Saul.
sh1t Korean cinema been bodying Hollywood for the past few years.
Black entertainment, guys we can be teachers.
No no. I love these Mets level expectations. I’m glad they have people getting roles in these base level roles. Meanwhile Snowfall exists. Pretty much everything on starz. n1ggas STILL slurp the wire to this day.
We are the only culture in this country, on this planet, in this galaxy who push back on asking for more and just have to be grateful for the bare minimum.
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You mention all these crime/anti hero shows like we don't have several black anti hero shows on TV (snow fall, power, BMF etc.)
We get a show that's not about race or drugs or h0es just teachers tryna make it at a sh1tty school and the teachers just happen to be black. But now it's a problem.
People say we tired of seeing black people as slaves, we tired of seeing black trauma. We get a show with none of those tropes but it's still a problem.
Hanging with Mr Cooper was 30+ years ago now. The Steve Harvey Show was 20+ years ago. Other than those two what was the last show focused on black educators. I wouldn't put Boston public in that convo because it wasn't a "black show" even though but even that is 20 years old now.
This is just one of many aspects of black life that should be televised. You can call it a low bar but stop thinking about what its doing for the white general public and just think about how black people receive these images of themselves on the screen.