Millions of people around the country watch the ABC show “Blackish” starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. Many in the black community have been watching the show hoping the comedy with black people at the center doing well makes it on television.

The hope is to have a positive black family at the middle of a major network show to cast a positive light on the black community and our issues.

I have faithfully watch the show week in and week out, frankly, hoping it will improve. The show isn’t very funny to me and I cannot stand the name. Nevertheless, I have endured my feelings, the lack of humor, the tacky way they introduce “black issues” and discuss them on the show hoping it would improve over time as the writers and actors fell into their groove. It hasn’t.

And last last night drew the line in the sand for me and this show. I will NEVER watch or support this show again. Not because it just isn’t funny or there are marginal, at best, actors in the show or the fact that the writing is horrific. I will NEVER watch again because they FLAT OUT DISRESPECTED EVERY BLACK FATHER IN THIS COUNTRY….and this FATHER (and son of one) WON’T STAND FOR IT.

What happened?

Dre, Anthony Anderson, was trying to pull his children’s heads out of the clouds and get them to respect all the hard work he and their mother did to afford all the opportunities and luxury they have given. The kids are spoiled by their success and Dre wanted them to experience his roots growing, so he removed the food from the refrigerator leaving only ketchup, baloney and baking soda in there for them to eat. He said this is how his refrigerator looked growing up and they should figure out how to make it work.

Bow, Tracee Ellis Ross, enters the scene explaining why she feels this is ridiculous. She said she didn’t grow up eating those things and she turned out fine. To which Dre replies she didn’t have a black father. She says her father is white. To which Dre replies, “not all of us are so lucky.”

PUMP THE BREAKS, WHAT?

So, growing up with a white father makes you lucky. This would mean growing up with a black father makes your world and worth full of crap. Is this ABC’s, Anthony Anderson’s, and Tracee Ellis Ross idea of humor?

Let me tell you something, as a proud black father, i’m not laughing.

I am disgusted that more people out there are not as fed up with this garbage as I am. There is absolutely  no way I will continue to support this crap. I don’t care how thirsty the black community is for black faces on television without their pants around their ankles pumping mysogonystic music.

I ain’t going! Grow a pair and start supporting black media outlets that are owned by, for and about us.

This garbage belongs in the trash bin and I have endure my last piece of marginal humor, writing, and acting out of this show. It is bad enough one has to sit through that, but to be insulted as a black father or a child of black father as well is just too damn far.

Blackish is WHACKISH!