90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us | Renegade Cut

[TMC]

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Martin and other black sitcoms from the 90's tried to warn people about police misconduct.

[GentlemanJim]

There definitely is an abusive culture throughout law enforcement. But I believe that the agenda to frame the problem as purely racial is misguided, and disrespects those of us who have been abused, who are not black.

[TMC]

I literally watched that entire video last night and today I came across this:
Family Matters stars react to their racist cop episode's relevance 26 years later

The Season 5 Family Matters episode "Good Cop, Bad Cop" airing on Jan. 11, 1994 depicted Reginald VelJohnson's Chicago police officer character Carl Winslow confronting a fellow cop who racially profiled his son, Eddie, after initially defending his fellow officers. The episode, one of the rare past TV depictions of police profiling black men, has gone viral amid the Black Lives Matter protests in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing one month ago today. “I’m getting a little emotional just thinking about it,” says Darius McCrary, who played Eddie Winslow, while wearing a Black Lives Matter mask in a recent interview with SFGate. “That really happened to me. We told the producers. We had talked about it. In real life, the officers pulled me over because my vehicle was dirty. ‘And people who usually own those type of fine vehicles usually cared for their cars, so they wouldn’t have them dirty.’ That’s what the officer said to me in real life." McCrary adds: "These issues aren’t new, the cameras that are recording them are. It’s been happening for decades. I didn’t have a cell phone to record then, but I do now. Whenever I get pulled over, I always film the police. It’s sad that we have to do that, but we must always remember to film the police.” VelJohnson says that when the Family Matters writers "wrote the episode, we didn’t realize it would be so revealing and telling today. When I confront a racist cop, it’s a very sad thing. It’s a terrible, awful slash against human nature." VelJohnson says he performed the scene as scripted with no improvisation. “The scene was very powerfully written,” he says. “It was about a father who was not only confronting the major issue there, but he was protecting his son, and talking about what his son was involved with. And I think that dealing with all of those things as an actor, I portrayed it from that point of view. Protecting my family.” Although the 44-year-old McCrary and the 67-year-old VelJohnson agree that police brutality is a problem, they disagree over the phrase "Black Lives Matter." “All lives matter to me, that’s the only problem I have with that,” says VelJohnson, who apparently is unaware that "all lives matter" is a phrase used to counter Black Lives Matter. “Black lives do matter, and red lives, and white lives, and yellow lives do matter.” VelJohnson, who shadowed police officers for his cop roles in Die Hard and Family Matters, also says he has some sympathy with the difficulties of the job.

[Heenan Fan]

Originally Posted by GentlemanJim

There definitely is an abusive culture throughout law enforcement. But I believe that the agenda to frame the problem as purely racial is misguided, and disrespects those of us who have been abused, who are not black.

Hits nail on head. Cops don't hate black people. They hate poor people. But you won't see many stories of cops beating and killing white men, even though it happens every day, because the whore far left media doesn't want you to see that.

[king of comedy]

That scene still holds up. Powerful.

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by Heenan Fan

Hits nail on head. Cops don't hate black people. They hate poor people. But you won't see many stories of cops beating and killing white men, even though it happens every day, because the whore far left media doesn't want you to see that.

Isn't it easier though to target a person for being black than for being poor?
I mean, it is hard to tell that people are poor just by looking at them.

[Babalu]

This is a crock of ****.

5,000 blacks commit murder and no one cares.

A few cops kill black criminals while they're resisting arrest and the world comes to an end.

You treat cops that legitimately kill people for no reason like the George Floyd case and put them in jail.

But this make believe insanity that cops are the bad guys and criminals are the good guys is just that - insanity.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by TMC

Police abuse is an issues that was and still is very prominent in the African American community.

With so many more African American based tv shows on the air in the 1990s compared to the past decades of television the storylines were portraying something that was really going on within the concept of each tv series.

Also, it helped to educate those who may not have been aware of the Police abuse-stereotyping-profiling issue that it was indeed a real issue that African Americans still dealt with.