“Please, Baby, Please,” finally released two years after being yanked by ABC, is a forthright look at race in America. Why was it pulled in the first place?
. When reading fails, Dre is left to his own devices. So he starts telling Devante a story about “the Shady King”—a silly nickname for Trump—and all the bad things he’s done to his kingdom.
Dre makes pointed remarks about the king’s fixation with building a wall and throwing paper towels at a Puerto Rican crowd after Hurricane Maria. He explains the rise of white supremacist protests, how they can be partially attributed to white anger over the election of President10 years before. The episode features protest footage as well as footage of white supremacists talking about “white pride,” a notion that Pops quickly dashes.
Dre launches into a monologue about legendary Black athletes who fought for their rights, from Muhammad Ali to Arthur Ashe—eventually bringing Andre around to supporting the protest. All things considered, it’s balanced, sitcom-filtered take on the issue that elucidates the history of Black protest in sports, gently cutting through the misinformed take that Kaepernick’s protest is disrespectful to our troops.
the episode caused so much hand-wringing that he fought with ABC about it for weeks, even talking things over with Disney CEObefore the network ultimately pulled the plug. The way the episode was handled had a hand in Barris’s decision to walk back on his four-year contract with ABC/Disney and jump to Netflix, where heReally, what this incident shows is that two years ago, ABC was incredibly nervous about potentially pushing away Trump-supporting viewers.
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