If you want to understand why we have a black president while a Jewish commander in chief is still very much a distant dream, watch Black-ish.
I know: It’s a heavy weight to put on any show, especially a newcomer sitcom with no grand aspirations to be anything but a solid strip of entertainment. But spend five minutes looking at Anthony Anderson strutting his stuff, and you will realize that Black-ish is the greatest American Jewish sitcom ever, and that no Jew could ever make it. And comparing Black-ish to just about every one of the scores of shows that feature a Jewish protagonist cast in more or less the same storyline—marginalized ethnic schlub transcends his parents’ parochialism, ascends the socioeconomic ladder only to find that the climb is thorny—tells you a lot about the emotional and cultural barrenness of American Jewry.
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