Family matters, fresh prince.
What I don't like about alot of black sitcoms is that they seem to take place in a world where only black people exist. Everyones friends, school teachers, classmates, the police, the president, the neighbors, etc are black. Just comes across as kinda silly.
Pixel-Pirate
Sometimes it makes sense though. For example, in Good Times (even though I don't recall liking that show), the family lives in a predominantly black slum. They work there, they go to school there, they are broke as dirt, and it's mostly blacks who live there. So in that context, it makes sense that you'd mostly see black people on the show.
It's just like when you watch Weeds, and the only black characters on that show are ****ing drug dealers. It makes sense within the context of the setting. If the protagonist wasn't being supplied with drugs by the black characters, then there'd be no reason to have any blacks on the show. If she wasn't getting drugs from the blacks, then she would avoid them entirely and stay within her own little whitewashed suburban community just like all of her neighbors.
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