Black-ish

 In season 2 episode 16 it starts off by a family watching the news regarding a case of police brutality. The younger two kids don’t know what’s going on so they start to ask questions but their parents don’t want to answer them because they don’t want them to know what’s really going on and show them the injustice that is happening in America. Yes police brutality is a heavy topic now and days but this episode talks about it but in a humorous way. Both Dre and his dad said the same thing, “police beating up on an unarmed black man isn’t a new story. It’s been happening forever—the “only thing new is that people are recording.” With that statement being true, the show used that heavy quote in a humorous way by having Dre say it at the beginning and then having pops say it a few minutes later on in the show. The show then cuts back to Dre saying the same exact thing while pops and Dre’s son sit there not paying attention to anything that he is saying. Then they both tell Dre that they don’t recall or remember him saying anything.Another example of how humor is used to talk about these issues, the family themselves were on different sides about police. Dre says that police are thugs but Bow says that not all of them are. Dre then says that “only 92 percent are; the other 8 percent are advisors on Law & Order.”

The shows representational story about race is that there is an uneven balance in the justice system in America and police brutality is happening often, but at the same time they show that in a time like that people need to be there for each other. The episode ends with them going to join the protest together, in solidarity with each other and in solidarity with their black brothers and sisters. It ends with the only thing this black family, this black community knows what to do. To stay together and love each other fiercely.

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