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Good Times cartoon series disrespectful to black folks

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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?

Do you hate the reboot?

Are you sick and tired of white producers controlling black content?

Watch Bern Nadette give her two cents.

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This Post Has 77 Comments

  1. THE TWERKING SCENE WAS ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY, WITH “GREY” GETTING HER BODY DONE WITH PLASTIC SURGERY WAS DEFINITELY UNNECESSARY!

  2. THIS ANIMATED “Good Times” VERSION IS AWFUL & HORRIBLE! The writers, creators & THE BLACK ACTORS & ACTRESSES, SHOULD’VE WALKED AWAY FROM THIS! I Grew Up Watching the ORIGINAL Classic Sitcom & I ABSOLUTELY LOVE & STILL WATCH THE ORIGINAL “GOOD TIMES” cause the original had GREAT STORYLINE(s) IN EACH EPISODE, ALL THE ACTORS & ACTRESSES IN THE ORIGINAL WERE GREAT ACTORS & ACTRESSES AND THEY DID THEIR RESEARCH ON THEIR CHARACTERS, THE ORIGINAL WRITING WAS GREAT! THE DIRECTOR(S) IN THE ORIGINAL WAS GREAT! Anywho THIS ANIMATED VERSION WAS AWFUL & HORRIBLE!

  3. Seth is obviously a racist and has no talent and must be Jewish🤡 . This show sucks .. couldn’t even make it to the 5 minute mark.

  4. The Black Community continues to suffer from internal and external sabotage..This shit is Ignorant! fuk Netflix…

  5. It should be bad times that show is sic sexual and nasty n 2 much cussing. Just crazy n ghetto. Just awful smh..

  6. Idk i chuckled at parts. This definitely doesn’t feel much different than watching the boondocks. Its seems like something that shouldn’t be taken seriously

  7. Netflix, is TRULY AGAINST THE BLACK CULTURE AND COMMUNITIES. EVERYONE BLACK SHOULD LEAVE THAT COMPANY.

  8. Yuck. Seth McFarland, that says it all. Two white guys producing a black show. SMH

  9. Shout out to John Amos and Esther Rolle for being real role models and standing up for their TV kids and authentic Black culture.

  10. I think the black culture would’ve found this more entertaining in the late 90s early 2000s but I think there’s been an evolution since those times and dumbed down black animation is no longer funny. We don’t want to normalize and make fun of our struggles anymore. We want reflective material now. Funny how of all the black animations created, we’ve never seen another show like the boondocks. Ironic how that show has been passed over for a remake. Perhaps they understand what kind of awareness that show would give us…

  11. The show is racist, misogynistic, insensitive, and just all around TRASH. I was waiting for the punch line and actual funny part to begin but it never came. I also found the show to be anti religious. I know Seth is a atheist but I honestly don’t understand why Steph curray would sign off on this bs, being a black man and a Christian.

  12. so help me out…the main thing about the stereotypes….when is talking to roaches a black stereotype???? like wtf was that….

  13. The fact that there are reputable black actors, comedians and celebs attached to this garbage is disheartening. Hopefully, NetFlix removes this show from their platform because this ain’t it.

  14. How this even Good Times…..this is nothing more than Bebe kids movie rip off and slapping Good Times name to it….total insult to what Good Times was about.

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