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Just did not sit well with me. i had to say, "i don't think that black father would say that to his black son." - i thought what i went through tonight with the worst thing that's ever happened to me, but i was wrong. not having my own father believe me is even worse. - i remember the showrunner getting very angry, wondering if i was saying he was racist, and i remember realizing at that moment, as black people, our desire to depict authentic versions of ourselves is always negotiated because if i'm not here, then this whole room is white, and then characters who look like me will have no one ...

To these households. "good times" had that. - "good times" made history because it was the first time we had black creators. - all right, come on over here, lionel. - michael evans, who was a guy from "all in the family," he had access to norman lear, and norman lear told him to write something, and he wrote something with eric monte. - just to get that chance to prove yes, we deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, sa...

I said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walker's character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "good times" was a microcosm of what it is to produce black television. - eric monte and mike evans were forced to partner with a white show runner. that reflected a dynamic that we see throughout the history of black tv, which is having black creatives needing the co-sign of a white person in order to make their thing, even though it's based in the stories they know. - by season two of "good times," john amos was complaining abo...

Really, really big, "pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat "the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window," unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. so pick me. choose me. love me. - and in shonda's case, it's fantastic, because finally a woman, finally a person of color is doing this. - anything that opens doors for more women and more african-americans and more diverse casting and more diverse crew is a good thing. - shonda stood up and went, "yes, i am gonna be a show-runner, and i'm gonna be a juggernaut." - ten bucks says he messes up the ...

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