Racist Comments in at least one episode - rat in house

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No...it is racism. Look up "fun" and compare it to "racism" in the dictionary. And please fo not tell me what I can watch on TV. I would never be so presumptuous as to tell you what to do. It amazes me that so many of our forefathers of many races and colors fought so hard to establish freedom and a playing field whereupon we could love, cherish, and embrace each other only to have it be demoralized and degraded by Americans who have become entitled, rude, and arrogant...

I caught a few minutes of an episode where the wife was angry the husband had been attracted to a WHITE tennis player. She made a big deal out of the woman's race and drove the point home as he carried her upstairs once they had made up. I was like are you serious? I can't believe the CW is airing that kind of dialogue.

Wait wait wait... So you're saying that your surprised a comedy with a predominantly black cast make a white joke? Or a black comedian who stared in a MOVIE CALLED WHITE CHICKS made the joke? Get the feck outta here!

I'm a half white woman and I was no where near offended. Are those 3 girls the absolute worst example of American white women? You freaking bet!!! That was the point! Get over it! Smdh

Hilarious.

Also, during the episode about the counting to 1 million contest online, Nick & Suzanne each had a "white people" line. I too thought it wouldn't have went over well if it had been reversed to Caucasians saying "black people" in reference to something they themselves wouldn't do. During that episode Martin pointed out that Nick & Lindsey were also taking part in the contest and that he then called them white.

During one episode, maybe the identity theft one, the kids were complaining to Marilyn about needing her to watch them while their mother was out of town. Marilyn said it was because there are alot of movies about what happens when kids are left alone for long periods of time, Kevin said that those were white kids, she then named some involving black kids, and ended with "don't be prejudice".

It's though a funny show and not prejudice in general. I don't expect it to be perfect so I will continue to watch.

The ONLY way that line could be considered anything OTHER than racism, would be if the characters saying the lines were understood by the audience to be stereotypical racists. Archie Bunker said things that were insensitive or blatantly racist like that, but it was funny because he was understood to be a racist *beep* People laughed at his ignorance and stupidity, not at the racist comment. Carrol O'Connor, the man who played the role, would never have agreed to play that character unless it was clear his character was NOT being taken seriously.

Not having seen the show, produced as it was by a racist, woman-hating, failure of a man like Ice Cube, a punk-ass bitch whose only reason for material gain is his willingness to exploit the worst parts of his audience's nature, I wouldn't know what the characters are supposed to be like. I would guess they're presented as happy, well-adjusted, middle-class black folks who are "just like you and me".

Well, it may be the case that in a modern black family, anti-white racist comments like that are just considered jokes, but they shouldn't have any place in a sitcom with children in it, unless, as I said, the characters saying things like that are being presented as racist clowns, like Archie Bunker.

Don't think that you're clever to down-play the possibility of people being genuinely hurt by anti-white comments in a predominantly black show. Plenty of white people have children by black people, and those children deserve better than to be told by people of either ethnicity that the other is one you wouldn't want to be like.

Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.

...which means that at least one person is not going to like something. I don't really perceive the comment as racist. Say what you want about Ice Cube, but I am sure he is not writing the scripts.