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LessAspin

(1,155 posts) Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:07 PM Jan 2020

black-ish "Lemons"

"Lemons" was an episode of blackish dealing with the election of Trump. They really did a great job of showing how the characters were struggling to come to grips with it. The thing is now, as bad as they imagined it might be, it's turned out much worse than they even dared to imagine...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/25/series-creator-kenya-barris-on-abc-sitcom-black-ish

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black-ish "Lemons" (Original Post) LessAspin Jan 2020 OP

I think the point of the clip was recognition of how horrible the past has been. mucifer Jan 2020 #1

Powerful. Duppers Jan 2020 #2

mucifer

(23,553 posts)

1. I think the point of the clip was recognition of how horrible the past has been.

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2020, 02:25 PM

Jan 2020

And that it has been horrible for POC under republican and democratic administrations.

That can't be denied.

SNL did something very similar and equally poignant IMO:

Duppers

(28,125 posts)

2. Powerful.

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2020, 03:39 AM

Jan 2020

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