[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]

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.

[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?)