Kenya Barris sometimes looks at his five kids in wonderment. Private schools, professional parents who can give them things and open doors. No sense of privation. And the kicker is, he's responsible! "We're kind of taught to give your kids more than you had," Barris muses. "But in giving them more, what do they lose?"And that, friends, is the core of Black-ish, which examines the life of advertising exec Andre Johnson, his pediatrician wife, Rainbow (her parents were hippies), and their four children. Like the Cosbys before them, the Johnsons — played by Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross — are black, prosperous and well-educated. And just like Barris, who created the show, Andre has given his kids the opportunity to grow up with serious material advantages and a multiracial cast of friends while worrying it's a "filtered version" of the black experience.Barris says that although many of the storylines from Black-ish come directly from experiences he and his writing team have had
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