That is the real world, and our children need to know that that's the world they live in. "Tell me you weren't worried that someone was going to snatch that hope away from us like they always do. "Tell me you weren't terrified when you saw that," Dre says. It emphasizes the importance of the Johnsons discussing these issues with their children. However, the most compelling sequence of the episode - and one of the best moments on television this year - is when Dre tearfully reminds Rainbow of President Barack Obama's first inauguration, when he and first lady Michelle Obama walked out of their limousine. "If 25% of LAPD shootings are against unarmed suspects, then the remaining 75% must be armed, right? Junior points out that if she lost one 1 of 4 patients, it wouldn't be a good measure of her abilities." Rainbow is "anti-police brutality, but not anti-police," Nichole Perkins wrote for Vulture. At the same time, though, the family concludes that officers must improve as a collective, using real-life statistics as evidence. It's an important moment in the guise of comedy - no, not all police are inherently bad. When Dre is lambasting the police as a group, Rainbow reminds him that in their neighborhood, he knows officers on a first-name basis, which cuts to a flashback of him calling an officer under his covers because he heard a noise and was concerned. "Hope" isn't, however, about labeling police officers exclusively as villains. "The system is rigged against us." #blackish /FJF4IjYgdf Meanwhile, the youngest kids - twins Jack and Diane (Miles Brown and Marsai Martin, respectively) - are worried they too could be harmed by any interaction with the police. Eldest son Junior (Marcus Scribner) wants to join the protests happening in the city, but Dre initially refuses to let him. In the episode, the verdict for the fictitious case is, to nobody's surprise but everyone's disappointment, that there will be no indictment. Instead, with new forms of media and the internet, the general public is more aware of systemic violence and oppression than ever. This includes going back to 1963 with the Buddhist monk Thích Qu?ng ?c - who, in a widely publicized display of protest for the persecution of Buddhist monks, burned himself alive - all the way to signs and illustrations of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012.īlack-ish uses t hese images to correspond with the notion Dre and his father (Laurence Fishburne) bring up: These issues aren't new.
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The series is produced by ABC Studios (part of Disney Television Studios), alongside 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios.But the episode does use images and clips from important politicized moments from across the world to great effect. The series was created by Kenya Barris and is executive produced by Barris, Courtney Lilly, Laura Gutin Peterson, Gail Lerner, Anderson, Fishburne, Helen Sugland, and E. Stevens, and Deon Cole as Charlie Telphy. They start to realize how much they relied on. BLACK-ISH - 'Dream Home' - Dre and Bow are living separate lives and switching off with the kids. He feels like there aren't enough black holidays, so he enlists Aloe Blacc at work to help him create a catchy song to raise awareness for a holiday worth celebrating: Juneteenth.ĪBC's Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson as Andre "Dre" Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson, Laurence Fishburne as Pops, Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, Marcus Scribner as Andre Johnson Jr., Miles Brown as Jack Johnson, Marsai Martin as Diane Johnson, Jenifer Lewis as Ruby, Peter Mackenzie as Mr. Black-ish season 4, episode 23 recap: Dream Home.
Black-ish Season 4, Episode 1 "Juneteenth": The Johnsons go to Jack and Diane's school play about Columbus Day, and Dre is dismayed by the historically inaccurate way that the holiday is portrayed.
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