Have you noticed how Black characters today are portrayed as flawless, always cool and never wrong about anything.
In contrast, look at Carlton Banks:
>manlet
>can't get any dates
>failed his interview with Yale
>sucks at sports
>constantly called an Uncle Tom for being different
>can't live up to his father's legacy
Thoughts on this?
racism is no longer socially acceptable, get over it
>Have you noticed how Black characters today are portrayed as flawless, always cool and never wrong about anything.
Give me 10 examples
Literally every recent Disney Channel and Nickelodeon sitcom has a "cool" black kid. For example Bella and the Bulldogs
Well that's what made characters like him and Steve Urkel lovable. Their characters weren't solely based on their race; they just seemed like characters that happened to be black. Shows these days have black characters for the sake of having black characters, and they never have flaws because that would seem wrong to liberals.
Fuck white people
Carlton wasn't cool?!
This, identity politics ruined everything
The poo in loo from The Big Bang Theory is the most pathetic guy on the show.
Your whole view on media depictions of black people is derived from tv sitcoms aimed at little girls?
>Their characters weren't solely based on their race; they just seemed like characters that happened to be black
No, the appeal was that they were black guys who were "not black": nerdy, effeminate, unattractive, not athletic, not assertive, not involved in contemporary black culture. Urkel and Carlton do more to affirm stereotypes by being jokes at the expense of living outside the stereotype.
>No, the appeal was that they were black guys who were "not black": nerdy, effeminate, unattractive, not athletic, not assertive, not involved in contemporary black culture
You spend too much time on Sup Forums man if you really believe this. Not everyone watched that show because the characters weren't stereotypically black, they liked them because they were good characters. It would've worked even if they were white
>not black equates nerdy, effeminate, unattractive, not athletic, not assertive and not involved in contemporary black culture
Great stereotypes friend.
So like Ross and Chandler...
No, of course they were good characters. But half the joke was the contrast between what was expected of them on tv, especially with Carlton. Carlton could be in a white show, but Will couldn't, and Carlton without Will isn't much. He's there to contrast Will being typically "black" but he's also the butt of every joke.
That was my point
>Carlton could be in a white show, but Will couldn't, and Carlton without Will isn't much. He's there to contrast Will being typically "black"
It's not so much he's a contrast to Will being black as a contrast of someone who is more athletic/social really. Yes of course there are culturally black elements, but it still could have worked if you made Will some white Chad and Carlton some white nerd
Are there any black villains?
Yet Carlton is based as fuck
Denzel Washington in Training Day
Samuel Jackson is a bad guy in a couple movies. Kingsmen for one.
Biopic when?
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