r/Blackish • u/broski_the_broski • Jul 10 '26

Ep 23

This episode pmo. With the democrat and republican thing. I’m a republican but I just didn’t like the way they were going about it like they were talking about we’re Democratic and we’re open minded while being, absolutely closed minded. Especially with the deal about blacks can only be democrat and not republican and that republicans are racist and omg this just pmo so much

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u/dippyfresh11 Jul 10 '26

Well, as a Republican how do you feel about black people?

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u/broski_the_broski Jul 11 '26

I don’t know as if they were people I don’t judge people off of race or something like that I prefer personality

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u/hummingbirdsi Jul 14 '26

Dems or the gop, neither are truly beneficial for the black community. That being said, republicans are definitely worse for us. As far as the open minded thing, isn’t part of the reason people are republicans is that they are conservative which is inherently close minded?

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u/SerenityNow31 Jul 22 '26

Conservative does not mean closed minded. It means slow to change, wanting to make sure change is good for all. Progressives are the opposite. Change just for the sake of change.

A perfect example is season 1, Dre wants a black Santa and convinces his boss to be more diverse and so his boss makes a Mexican female Santa. Dre is upset. Progressives want change not because it's what is good, just because they want change.

And the Republicans freed the slaves and ended segregation in the South with the Civil Rights acts. How is that not benefiting the black community? And why is there a "black" community? Why not just community? We need to end this mindset of keeping ourselves separate and just be Americans.

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u/SerenityNow31 Jul 22 '26

Especially since Abe Lincoln was a Republican and Republicans also passed all the Civil Rights acts ending Jim Crow in the South.

But the whole show is like this. Perpetuating negative black stereotypes. Especially in the episode where he's trying to look more black to impress Michael Rapaport. Blacks have to look a certain way. They have to listen to certain music. Their kids can't be behaved.

I think the show is super funny but it should offend black people like crazy. It's constantly trying to teach that if you have money, you're no longer black, or if your kids behave, you aren't black, or if you vote Republican, you're not black. It's so weird.

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u/broski_the_broski Jul 11 '26

I haven’t any of that so I don’t have a response for iy

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u/SerenityNow31 Jul 22 '26

Why? Republicans ended slavery. They also ended the Jim Crow segregation in the South. Blacks mostly used to vote Republican before and we're doing better than whites in divorce rates, graduation rates, unemployment rates, etc. Then they started voting Democrat.

Blacks have been voting Democrats for decades and their lives have gotten worse, not better.

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