My thoughts on "Blackish"

I did a quick search for a thread about Blackish and could find anything other than a comparison to Modern Family.

Now let me say, the first episode was really good. I laughed a lot. Now that it's into maybe the 8th or 9th(?) episode... I'm bailing.

It is the same uncomfortable rhetoric about "Dre's" family (mostly his son) not understanding the plight of today's black youth and unaware of the struggles that generations suffered before him.

Each episode just reaffirms that the agenda of the show is to satire a middle-upper class black framily that is better off that most Americans.

I can no longer subscribe to this tired excuse of social agenda insight being sold as comedy.

There is no way this show should be extended another season and I say that not from a "white perspective", but a consumer of television and advocate for quality writing.

That said, the writing isn't the problem... It's like the writers are doing a bang-up job trying to fit into the mold that the creator is trying to push down our throats.

What is the demographic that this show is meant to cater? It's certainly not black Americans and with all of this racial stereotypes vilifying white America, I can't imagine that anyone would continue to subscribe to this perverse rendition of "comedy" other than to be able to say, "Oh yeah, I watch 'blackish'... It's great!"



I'm done with it.

/rant