Black-ish Stars Dish Deets On “N-Word” Premiere Episode!

The first conference room scene in this episode is the flawless example of this necessary camaraderie, as Dre, Charlie, and Curtis drop the n-word nonchalantly in discussing Dre’s issue-of-the-week, while everyone else cringes with each mention of the word.

The “30 Seconds Ago” flashback was killer. The youngest son in the family, Jack Johnson (Miles Brown), gets in trouble for using the n-word in a school talent show when he performs the Kanye West song “Gold Digger”. This event causes everybody in the Johnson household to examine their views on their n-word policy.

For a season premiere, “The Word” is remarkably bold, both in its subject matter, and the ideologies it presents as it explores the use of the “n-word” in 2015 culture.

Indeed. Chris Rock, in his “Bring the Pain” HBO special in 1996, declared, “There’s like a civil war going on with black people, and there’s two sides – black people and n****rs”. They want you to live in a “nigga”-free zone”. The draft is in and I’m really, really proud of it”. Confused at this point, he says, “I lost my way” and blames it on blood sugar.

Nope. No, no, no. No, no. Tr-tr-tr- John, no. I look forward to seeing all the messes that he gets himself into. Tr-tr-tr-trust. So, as a… Both families are African-Americans.

The episode goes to great lengths to try and wring commentary and comedy out of one of society’s most hot-button topics, addressing non-black appropriation of the word while also spoofing white indignation at not being “allowed” to use the term. No, no, no! What’s up?

Hey, guys, guys. I’m so confused. One, I’m half Iranian.

Come on, Mr. Stevens, be honest.

Mr. Green: Didn’t you write the rulebook? “We know them so we’ve been dealing with them and their people and hopefully they’ll say yes”. Play into stereotypes much, ABC? That’s why a black-ish episode about the N-word is significant: much of the current crop of black-oriented television shows feature content that seeks quite deliberately to be representative of those black voices.

Is it not? From you, it would be, and maybe principal green.

Did you know that small measures like cutting down on lawn sprinklers and taking shorter showers can make a big ecological impact? That’s what we try to do for the show in general – just start a conversation. Being “Black-ish” only makes you popular so long, trust me. “For me, it’s like my tribal call”. My blood sugar low. And the last person that should be held accountable for it is an 8-year-old boy who doesn’t have an ounce of hate in his heart. We have a Black president and all these things. All right? All right. “Having a family of comedy and opening doors for new voices; I think that would be something I would love to be a part of”. Thank you. Okay.

Vine video that never fails to crack you up:When Matt Cutshall takes the beat of Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” and sings about horchata latte’s. Zoe pipes in that her friends use it all the time (“They don’t mean anything by it”), but, to Andre’s horror, her friends are all white. But at least they can relate to him, simply because they are black men in the same office and world. Meanwhile, Paula Deen doesn’t have those kind of connections to the politically correct crowd, and gets far worse. Terrence Howard, star of FOX’s hit hip-hop drama “Empire”, said in an Entertainment Weekly interview that he hopes the show uses the word in its upcoming second season.