Good Times cartoon series disrespectful to black folks

Good Times cartoon wicked. 

Blog King, Mass Appeal

HOLLYWOOD — Not even Black Jesus can save this. Seth MacFarlane’s “Good Times: Black Again” cartoon is out on Netflix and to call it defamation of black culture would be a vast understatement. It’s so impertinent, the producers deserve jail time. For starters, there’s no James Evans. No Florida Evans. No J.J. Evans. No Thelma Evans. And, no Michael Evans. Like the ’70s sitcom, the animated series takes place in a Chicago housing project. But it’s anchored by a whole new cast two generations later. Now we have Reggie Evans (a corpulent cab driver with high blood pressure), Beverly Evans (a Peggy Bundy wannabe), Reggie Evans Jr. (an illiterate artist), Grey Evans (a feminist) and Dalvin Evans (a drug dealing neonate). Jimmie Walker contacted Norman Lear’s office four years ago to pitch the cartoon. And it was supposed to be a progressive conception that featured all the original cast members sans Esther Rolle. That’s obviously not the case. The reboot is a minstrel show.

You’ll see cockroaches everywhere. You’ll hear ample profanity. You’ll descry scantily clad black vixens with hair weave, fake eyelashes and voluptuous derrières twerking at a strip club. You’ll see suburban white folks driving to the hood to purchase narcotics from Dalvin. You’ll see gangbanging. You’ll see Pookie & Ray Ray shooting’ craps on street corners. You’ll see a slothful Black Jesus ignoring prayers. You’ll see Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates plotting to conduct genetic experiments on blacks.

And you’ll see a Caucasian woman named “All White Men” who takes credit for systematic destruction of the black community.

The entire installment is a hot ghetto mess.

Hell, you could make a strong argument Satan is the director.

Bern Nadette Stanis, who played Thelma in the live-action version, lambasted the producers during a chinwag with TMZ.

“When you see something that actually is not progressive… it kind of brings you back into the projects two generations later,” she said.

“So Thelma had a baby. What happened to that baby? Um, I wanted to be a surgeon. I guess I was. Uh, J.J. was a famous artist. So you have positive images generations before that and then all of a sudden you see this?”

Social media reaction was vicious.

One commenter wrote, “I lasted 5 minutes.”

Another chimed in with, “They got the baby selling drugs…wtf?”

A third viewer added, “The moment they said Seth MacFarlane was part of this, I knew where the show was headed.”

John Amos, who played James, recently revealed he was fired in 1976 after threatening physical violence against the show’s white producers for disseminating negative stereotypes of black people.

Nearly 50 years later, nothing has changed.

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry is listed as one of the producers.

But it’s window dressing.

Steph is a token for damage control.

“Good Times: Black Again” is definitely MacFarlane’s work.

Steph is on record saying he won’t let his kids watch the show.

Ain’t that a bitch?

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