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In many homes, difficult conversations about race and diversity have first happened on the sitcom screen, helping pave the way for progress with hilarity and...

In many homes, difficult conversations about race and diversity have first happened on the sitcom screen, helping pave the way for progress with hilarity and...

Ep. 44: Black Sitcoms We Loved Growing Up And Still Love Today

Misrepresentation on the screen it has done on many levels great harm. >> on the radio "amos & andy quat" was one of the most popular sitcoms. but the performers who played them on radio were white. >> come up here and dedicate the sky ride. >> the original pilot for the show were done in blackface, and the sponsors said, i don't know if this is going to go over well. so they cast it with some very funny black comedians. >> what do you think, lightning? >> this sure is a thin house. >> it was at times hysterically funny. but the stereotypes left a negative taste in a lot of our mouths. >> the ...

>> wa s the junior high school across the street really that bad? [ gunshots ] >> much like rock & roll school shootings were also invented by blacks and stolen by the white man. >> and of course in 2006 upn merged with the wb to become what we now know as the cw. >> the cw just decides not to do sitcoms anymore. and that cuts out all black programming. >> it's something fox did earlier. you start your network based on black sitcoms. and then when you get enough viewers you make the pivot to the, quote unquote, more mainstream white audiences, which of course also gets you better advertisers. ...