Barack Obama is inspiring change everywhere, it would seem, and the lag of this change into sitcom prime time apparently is minuscule. NBC announced today that it will begin production on “Making Friends With Black People”, a sitcom aimed at addressing race relations in America. Finally, a network is making a show that needs to be made. It’s almost sad to think that it took the first black president to give them the temerity to produce a comedy on this subject.
“From time to time, race bubbles up in the consciousness of the country and then dissipates,” said “Making Friends” author Nick Adams. “Now, with Obama, people are talking about race a lot more. We hope to capitalize on that and not let the dialogue die down. … It seemed like a good opportunity to strike while the iron is hot.”
This isn’t going to be another “Chappelle’s Show”, but hopefully Standards and Practices won’t over-muzzle it either.
On this day, November 18th, in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill instituting the death penalty for murder in regards to drug trafficking.
Over the next couple years, Reagan and his successor, Bush, would send US troops to Panama and various location in South America under strict orders to break that law by murdering as many drug dealers as possible.
Of course, they had a looser definition of Murder. They only
Considered it murder if the person being killed wasn’t Hispanic.
The military maneuvers were given the code-name “Operation Just
Cause”. Of course, that was the result of bad dictation. Bush actually said he wanted to call it “Operation Just ‘Cus”.
The whole situation lead to the discovery that the CIA had been
funding cocaine smuggling.
Well now that TRL doesn’t exist, MTV is just randomly premiering videos. With that said, last night’s lucky girl was Rihanna…and of course her she was fabu! Did you see it? In case you missed her primetime debut of Rehab here it is:
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