Media has often represented a dark face from black people. They are shown either lazy and stupid or criminal, in the best circumstances, they are passive or sport professionals.
The opposite programs, like Cosby Show, that illustrates normal and successful black families, have changed this picture. Cosby show with its sitcoms shows its audiences a different narrative of blacks. It has used the influence of television to affect people's mind and alter the past imaging of this race. It does so by real situations, music, and fun. This series has started airing from NBC in 1984 and now after 25 years is still a favorite program.
According to Pazsaz entertainment network, "The series is about Heathcliff Huxtable, commonly known as Cliff, and his family. Cliff delivers babies for a living and has an office at home. His wife, Clair, is a successful lawyer. They have five children, ranging from the youngest, Rudy, to the oldest, Sondra. Most of the episodes revolved around Cliff dealing with his kids as they went through life, aged, and some eventually moved out."[1]
The question is that are the programs like Huxtable family paved the way for electing Obama? Are these shows preparing people's mind to trust the abilities of blacks and change their attitude regarding degrading them? Although the writer and comedian, Bill Cosby, believes that people would elected Obama anyhow without these propaganda, because people have had Martin Luther King in mind, the question may have other answers too.
[1] http://www.pazsaz.com/cosby.html
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