ABC’s family sitcom has been praised for its nuanced portrayal of black family life,but Hispanic audiences are well overdue representation of their ownThere’s a great scene in final season’s Black-ish – Kenya Barris’s family comedy on ABC – where a group of co-workers develop up a system for who should be allowed to say the N-word. “Bill Clinton? Probably shouldn’t use it either,” says one. “But I wouldn’t be crazy if he did.” The entire episode was inspired by true events when Barris found out the word was being used by his 16-year-frail daughter’s white male friends. The experience triggered Barris and his writers into making one of the funniest episodes since the show launched two years ago, or but more importantly it confirmed something we already knew: the show is a series of contemporary-day parables on race relations disguised as a comedy. Related: Black-ish: a revolutionary current comedy tackling issues of race head on – review Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com