Talk:Black-ish

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Episode Content Section
Social and Political Commentary Content

Racism

Black-ish addresses not only the racism that the Johnsons face as an upper-middle class African-American family, but also includes the racism African-Americans from a variety of backgrounds face in America. The "Pilot" episode starts off the series by introducing Dre's fear that his kids are too assimilated to their primarily white surroundings and losing their black culture. The episode also addresses racism African-Americans face in the workplace when Dre gets excited for a promotion at his advertising agency, which turns out to be for Senior Vice President of the Urban Division. In response, Dre questions, "Did they just put me in charge of black stuff?" This episode raises the question of where the line is drawn so that you are not defined by your race but your culture still remains relevant.

In the 25th episode, "The Word", Jack performs Kanye West's "Gold Digger" at school and says the N-word. The rest of the episode discusses the generational and multicultural perspectives of the word and how it has a different meaning to different people, even between different African-Americans. That different meaning comes with different guidelines and regulations for the use of the N-word based on the speaker, the context, and the audience.

LGBTQ+

The 22nd episode, "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell". Dre's sister, Rhonda, is introduced. Rhonda is a lesbian but never officially came out to her family. Family members just gradually figured it out because of Rhonda's live-in girlfriend, however, no one ever acknowledges it. Andre admits that homosexuality is a topic that most African-Americans prefer to avoid, which is why he never discusses it with his sister. This leads to Rhonda not inviting any of her family members to her wedding and Andre finally talking to Rhonda about her sexuality.

Police Brutality

In the 40th episode, "Hope", the show tackles police brutality and Black Lives Matter as the family watches the news reporting about an unarmed young, black man's fatal run-in with police. Although the case was fictional, many real names, such as Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland, were included in the family's discussion. The debate format of the episode was able to address both sides of the situation and not completely villianize the police force. However, it leaned more towards the Black Lives Matter movement. The format also allowed for perspectives from different generations, backgrounds, and ideologies. The end of the episode revolved around a message of hope and the importance of protests, discussion, and attitudes when people are faced with tragedies from police brutality, assassinations, etc. Dmlee26 (talk) 08:04, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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Why the hyphen in the title?
It seems strange when the actual title shown on screen has no hyphen. 86.132.176.102 (talk) 01:12, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Awards and nominations
How do editors feel about forking the "Awards and nominations" section out to List of awards and nominations received by Black-ish? --- Another Believer ( Talk )

Splitting proposal
I propose that the character sections of Black-ish, Grown-ish, and Mixed-ish be split into a separate page called List of Black-ish, Grown-ish, and Mixed-ish characters. The three shows are all related, share some characters, and each have many characters. TheTVExpert (talk) 02:18, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

How about calling it Black-ish Universe — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.131.103.101 (talk) 20:02, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Agreed- LS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:880D:B000:11E5:137:1EC6:22A9 (talk) 15:15, 16 March 2021 (UTC)


 * If a split were to be made with an article title of that nature it would need to be Black-ish (franchise) to align with similar articles (Chicago (franchise), Law & Order (franchise), NCIS (franchise), etc.) but if the ONLY thing existing at the proposed split article is a character list then List of Black-ish, Grown-ish, and Mixed-ish characters would be the correct article title. Black-ish (franchise) would only be an acceptable article title if franchise-wide information existed like an overview of the franchise, any crossovers if they exist, a brief summary of the main cast, etc. in which case a LoC page should still exist (similar to how List of The Karate Kid characters and The Karate Kid (franchise) both exist). The Doctor Who  (talk) 23:40, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I think it is find how it is. While some characters are the same, some are very different as well. 2603:7081:402:92F6:81CF:FD14:7239:DB6D (talk) 22:29, 11 May 2022 (UTC)