Posted on 01/08/2017 3:22:32 PM PST by blam
The liberal ABC-Disney Television Network generated outrage during its televised coverage of the Houston Texans’ victory over the Oakland Raiders Saturday night in the Wild Card round of the AFC Playoffs, but it had nothing to do with the football.
Instead many viewers were annoyed at a promo for next Wednesday’s episode of ABC’s sitcom Black-ish, which features a predominantly African-American cast being decidedly anti-Trump in tone and nature.
In the promo, which bills the episode as the “election through the eyes of Black-ish”, Lucy (a white character played by Christine Reitman) tells her predominantly African-American co-workers: “I voted for Trump!” before adding the clichéd justification, “I’m a racist? I have black friends!”
In another scene, her colleague Daphne (Wanda Sykes) appears to kick out at her for merely expressing that she had chosen to cast her vote for the Republican Party.
Meanwhile the show’s protagonists Dre and Rainbow Johnson are seen looking crestfallen at the outcome of the election while in another scene Rainbow shouts “Go Hillary!”
The promo announcer goes on to promise: “Oh they’ll be tweeting about this one!”
People already are tweeting about the episode before it’s being aired but it’s not what ABC– owned by Disney– wants to read. Football fans are objecting to Trump voters being ridiculed in such a tiresome and predictable fashion.
“Why does the NFL keep playing an anti-Trump commercial for the terrible show Blackish?” wrote one tweeter. “They must not know their audience”. Another viewer fumed: “I am offended at the preview for the show #blackish about voting for Trump makes you a racist!”
Matt Falk tweeted: “No one watch #blackish. Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist, That show caters to the lowest common denominator” while Steve James declared on the online social networking service:
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I sent my first FAX in 1843....hard to believe but true.,
Time to just get away from TV and most movies, period. Save your kids’ balance. Save your frustrations. Save your money. Satan loves video.
Trump WILL take away their tax breaks. Maybe the movie industry knows this and that is one reason why they are so against him.
I will never watch another game.
pet peeve here. Doesn’t matter if you shot your tv or whatever. The bigger issue is they are disseminating these lies to impressionable audiences and we cannot be ok with it. It demands we stridently say ENUFF! It’s not harmless and its irrelevant whether you personally watch or not.
Blatant racism! The Obama legacy. The sorry bastard.
While we’re here, I’d like to bring this up: have you noticed that much or most of the programming on the Smithsonian Channels as well as the American Heroes Network are Canadian-produced? It’s so bad that I have a grandson who wanted to know if American fought in WWII other than at the landings on Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, and B-17 missions.
My television watching consists of watching Velocity, Hannity and The Military Channel.
At least you were spared those fireside chats of fdr that the professional fool and television expert joey biden mentioned.
I watched this show as a kid in the early 70s. Love to see it on DVD. It could help with the history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bvsi62XnBM
I don’t watch New Sitcoms. They are about as funny as a Kidney stone. No Imagination, no real humor. They always seem to go for the shock humor.
Liberals make fun of people who say,” I am not racist; I have black friends”
but think it fine to say, in effect, “I am not a racist; I am liberal.”
I still watch Agents of SHIELD. Peggy Carter's legacy.
Haven’t watched a game since kaperkook took his knee.
I watch the Patriots and Packers. The only teams that are even close to having racial balance. College sports and the NFL have become so out of whack racially it’s disgusting.
I walked away.
I’m not going to watch America disrespected.
The NFL can go to Hell.
Yes I am YELLING because the NFL has alienated and disrespected their entire patriotic American fan base, along with everything the NFL WAS FOUNDED UPON AND ALL OF THE AMERICAN VALUES THEY ONCE STOOD FOR; as a direct result of their UNAMERICAN POLICIES.
The NFL can rot!
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