Whereas sequence like “Mates,” “The Workplace,” and “Parks and Recreation” — reveals through which white characters merely exist for the sake of escapism and laughs — have existed for the reason that introduction of tv, comparable sequence depicting life in Black America are few and much between. Too typically, Black TV characters come from damaged households and violent backgrounds, whereas scripts learn as if they’re trying to clarify Blackness to a non-Black demographic. Watching reveals written about you however not for you is exhausting.
Identical to everybody else, Black individuals expertise love and loss, makeups and breakups, highschool crushes, and friendship drama. But our tales are sometimes stripped of any depth, left solely to revolve round what non-Black individuals assume Black life is like. So as a result of Black Pleasure, Black authors, and Black creators must be celebrated all yr spherical (not simply on Black holidays like Black Historical past Month and Juneteenth), listed here are 30 sitcoms, dramas, and animes about Black individuals simply . . . being — no clarification wanted.
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