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during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. >> thanks, nicolle welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed th...

Malcolm venable: you saw a black man who was like, standing up to white people. george: who are you calling crazy, honky? peter casey: the shows had depth to them. and they tackled racial issues. instructor: very good, very good ladies. who's next? come on, now, who's next? we're all friends here. hereman: well, you may all be friends, but we don't touch anything that's been kissed by a nigger. helen: i hope you got on your best suit! jay moriarty: the flashback episode of what jeffersons were doing the day martin luther king was shot, it ends with martin luther king's speech. martin luther ki...

You may all be friends but we don't touch anything that's been kissed by a nigger. >> the flashback episode what jeffersons were doing the day martin luther king shot. it ends with the speech. >> we've got difficult days ahead but i want you to know that tonight we have a people that will get to the promised land. >> but the fly in the ointment was that they were all written primarily by white executives who had a very myopic view of black america. >> i feel qualified to do that as a human being who shared some of those same concerns and we had a couple more writers who were themselves african...

When it is a misrepresentation on the screen, it has done on many levels great harm. >> in the radio amos and andy was one of the most popular sitcoms but the people who did it were white. >> the original pilot for the show were done in black face and the sponsor said, i don't know if hs going to go over well. so they cast it with some very funny black comedians. >> what do you think, lightning? >> this sure is the same house. >> it was at times hysterically funny but the stereotypes left a negative taste in a lot of our mouths. >> the central characters are all just different iterations of th...

That we as a people will get to the promised land. >> but the fly in the ointment was they were all written primarily by white executives who had a very myopic view of black america. >> i feel qualified to do that as a human being who shared some of the same concerns. and we had a couple of writers who were themselves african-american. >> does norman lear miss the mark a lot? yeah, he does. but he does capture some moments that had not been captured before in terms of showing african-american culture. >> i believe that it is important to have writers in the room that understand the characters ...