Who Am I?

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[DallasBiff]

Tootie falls for a black boy who tries to drive a wedge between her and her white friends

[DallasBiff]

Tootie finds a black radical boyfriend, and he says that she should not have white friends.

I know this show was 42 years ago, but this episode was predicting the future

[Bobalu]

[lee martell]

That was a very good show. Well written and convincingly acted. Each of the five main characters; the 4 girls and the older Matron: would most likely be quite different if done today.
People are much less subtle today and many tend to take every expression as literal fact.

[alexander_busek]

Tootie Ramsey: Mrs. Garrett, what should I do?

Edna Garrett: Tootie, Honey, I wish I could tell you, but the black experience isn't my experience.

But obviously Mrs. Garrett has an understanding of the "Black Experience," else how would she know that it differed from her personal experience.

Did Mrs. Garrett never have a "friend" who tried to drive a wedge between her and her other friends, on account of some imagined significant difference?

This dialog here is hardly better than

"Mrs. Garrett, is 2 + 2 = 5?"

"Honey, I wish I could tell you, but you're Black and I'm not, so I don't know what your answer should be!"

Regards,

[higgmeister]

I believe you used IMDB the Internet Movie Database, not the IMBD.

Why didn't you say it was "The Facts of Life" and I wouldn't have clicked this post.

[ifinnegan]

It’s Tootie.

Aka Regine.

I didn’t watch that show. Forgot her real name.

Kim Fields. I remembered.

[ifinnegan]

“Why didn’t you say it was “The Facts of Life” and I wouldn’t have clicked this post.”

Tootie. What else could it be?

[ifinnegan]

“Why didn’t you say it was “The Facts of Life” and I wouldn’t have clicked this post.”

Tootie. What else could it be?

[ifinnegan]

Joe E. Ross was Toody.

[Candor7]

Today, the Black Radical boyfriend would end up being shot in the back as he was running away from a police officer who was responding to a call from Wallgreens about a black man shop lifting a large container of KY jelly/lube
as reparation.

Apprantly Tootie wasn’t a slippery character.

[Salamander]

Kim Fields once said she always hoped that fellow cast member, George Clooney, would get “jungle fever”.

I will never forget her saying that.

I LMAO.

Bet she’d never say that now.

[Migraine]

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[USS Alaska]

Why didn't you say it was "The Facts of Life" and I wouldn't have clicked this post.

I never watched the original, and so I had zero interest in this story line until I read your righteous indignation.

Any FReeper that's been around here as long as you have and then gets his drawers in a wad because he clicks on click bait, deserves it.

Don't click it.

[Sirius Lee]

Tootie. What else could it be?

I thought it was another funny name for Vladimir Patootin. Didn't know he had black friends.

[moovova]

[Steven Tyler]

The matron, Garrett, would be some purple hair lesbo freak who sliced off her own breasts

[outofsalt]

"Who am I?"

I was going to guess, James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running-mate in 1992. Then I realized he probably didn't date black boys. Did he?)

[higgmeister]

Having never watched that show, I didn't remember Tootie from anything.   I was overseas when it aired and as it continued after that I worked shift work and had a real life to get busy with.

So what else could it be?   "Tootie" could have been a longshoreman from Liverpool, or a gay barista from Miami.   A featured Whale at Sea Life Aquarium, or Aunt "Tootie" Grindle from North Carolina.   I actually had no idea, and I even usually pride my self in knowing twentieth century allusions, but hey...

[ifinnegan]

Your comment is perceptive and makes a good point.