TERRENCE AND TARAJI DO DIDDY AND DEB
Stories like this—Game of Thrones, Dynasty, King Lear—are usually reserved for rich white people having the privilege and means to be cruel to each other. Enter Empire.
GUILT
White people and nonblack people of color have the luxury of treating these cases as injustices. For them, it is moralistic. For us, it's about survival. A conversation about race.
Urban
Here is a primetime network sitcom that subtly explores a man's sense of failure to reaffirm his blackness, exacerbated by seeing the seedlings of erasure in his own home.