When Black Television Educated Us

In the 1980s through the late 1990s, Black television typically educated, entertained, and uplifted us for a few hours each week. From the cultural groundbreaker The Cosby Show to its spinoff A Different World to classics such as Amen, 227, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Family Matters, and In Living Color to our sitcoms Living Single (which handily beats Friends any day of the week), Roc, and numerous other shows, we did it for the culture.

This doesn't include hybrid episodes of Brandy and South Central.

Any count, one scene of A Different World confronts the double standards of American racism. Check out the memes below - you might even remember the episode:

Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne) is dropping big facts

Keep going:  He doesn't cited the Homesteaders Act that gave everyone else free land or the words at Ellis Island were exclusionary to Black people already here