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ABC Enrages NFL Viewers With Anti-Trump ‘Black-ish’ Promo
Heat Street ^ | 1-8-2017 | Heat Street Staff

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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KEYWORDS: antitrump; blacks; democrats; nfl
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To: proust
"I’m better than all of you, I threw out my TV in 1859."

I sent my first FAX in 1843....hard to believe but true.,

61 posted on 01/08/2017 4:37:17 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

Time to just get away from TV and most movies, period. Save your kids’ balance. Save your frustrations. Save your money. Satan loves video.


62 posted on 01/08/2017 4:39:21 PM PST by polymuser (There's a big basket of deportables.)
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To: x1stcav

Trump WILL take away their tax breaks. Maybe the movie industry knows this and that is one reason why they are so against him.


63 posted on 01/08/2017 4:42:53 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: blam

I will never watch another game.


64 posted on 01/08/2017 4:45:06 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: blam
You must be a masochist to watch the NFL. They hate you.

65 posted on 01/08/2017 4:46:17 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN)
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To: blam

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.


66 posted on 01/08/2017 4:46:54 PM PST by Arkady
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To: blam

Blatant racism! The Obama legacy. The sorry bastard.


67 posted on 01/08/2017 5:00:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: blam

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.


68 posted on 01/08/2017 5:03:58 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies as a warning--take scalps.)
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To: Lazamataz

69 posted on 01/08/2017 5:09:29 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: blam

My television watching consists of watching Velocity, Hannity and The Military Channel.


70 posted on 01/08/2017 5:12:30 PM PST by wjcsux (MAGA, I'm not tired of winning or gloating!)
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To: proust

At least you were spared those fireside chats of fdr that the professional fool and television expert joey biden mentioned.


71 posted on 01/08/2017 5:14:27 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: righttackle44

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


72 posted on 01/08/2017 5:17:04 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: txrefugee

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.


73 posted on 01/08/2017 5:19:43 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: blam

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.”


74 posted on 01/08/2017 5:22:44 PM PST by djpg (Will)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
And Haley Atwell was one hot and classy dame on that show!

I still watch Agents of SHIELD. Peggy Carter's legacy.

75 posted on 01/08/2017 5:38:32 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: blam

Haven’t watched a game since kaperkook took his knee.


76 posted on 01/08/2017 5:40:46 PM PST by enduserindy (I always smile when my competition doubles down on stupid.)
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To: blam
Why even watch ABC, football or otherwise? If you absolutely must see a football game, go watch it at someone else's house, or a sports bar. Don't give these degenerated a cent more than possible. As for the rest of their programming, I quote jerry brown-- "if it's brown flush it down."
77 posted on 01/08/2017 5:53:29 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: chris37

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.


78 posted on 01/08/2017 5:57:37 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

I walked away.

I’m not going to watch America disrespected.

The NFL can go to Hell.


79 posted on 01/08/2017 6:08:55 PM PST by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: blam
ONE MORE REASON WHY I HAVEN'T WATCHED, AND WILL NOT WATCH A SINGLE ANTI-AMERICAN NFL GAME, INCLUDING THE "not so 'super bowl'"; PURCHASE ANY NFL MERCHANDISE OR SUPPORT ANY ANTI-AMERICAN NFL "ENABLING" SPONSORS!

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!

80 posted on 01/08/2017 6:13:18 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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