'Mixed-Ish' Ain't It-ish

ABC has renewed Black-ish for the 6th season and is now working on a prequel called 'Mixed-ish'. The prequel will follow Rainbow's upbringings with her mother and father and Tika Sumpter has cast to play Rainbow's mother.
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[@em.415]

King of Reads I think it’s ok for mixed people to be mixed and have their own separate spaces. Because what happens is mixed people take roles as black characters because they fit more into the European aesthetic. Which ends up erasing black people. Especially if they are dark skinned. It’s ok to acknowledge biracials as black and white, even though they are also vulnerable to anti-black racism it’s not in the same way darker skinned black people are.

[@fufu9899]

@@vinessawess4401 as long as it's white people promoting black women???

[@latifahbates]

If blackish gets anymore mixedish it’s going to be whiteish 🙄

[@demonahjones4496]

Latifah precisely correct! It has been toooo whitewashed I can’t take it...

[@zammymynakersnackstbmoth]

Exactly

[@reedbeans7869]

Latifah , You Hit It On The Head!

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

Yes😂😂😂

[@Smileychild22]

Right. I already saw it as Black people (the white version)

[@Mia-sq4fn]

Black-ish , Grown-ish, now Mixed-ish😒 baby I’m Tired-ish...give us some new content instead of all these spin offs

[@Smileychild22]

Agreed

[@Gunngirl]

Yes, and I was like where the hell did 'Grown-ish' come from? That show is OK. I don't what that look is that Zoe's boyfriends has. I hate it. But this Mixed-ish sounds like a SNL sketch. I don't need a background on Bow's family, I don't care that much.

[@Yoshibelle615]

Mimi’s Mind right like fuck this -ish

[@charlita25]

Lol 😂

[@ampmri2434]

Lmbo

[@colbykamilah]

I cannot watch Blackish, it’s as if they’re explaining things to White people, and non-Blacks. A study showed that White people actually watch the show more than Blacks. The name mixedish just sounds weird, and Blackish sounds weird too. It’s just all weird and not really meant or us.

[@ravensmith8991]

I agree! It was felt so bland lol My old white college professor said it “helped her understand black people” 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@lapeaches8006]

Yep!! 💯💯

[@lapeaches8006]

@@ravensmith8991 😩😭

[@michelleramsey4302]

I never realized it but dang you ARE RIGHT....how did I miss that ....they did do alot of black-splaining....

[@ampmri2434]

That is probably why the show still airs, cause I don't watch it and no one I know watches it either. Too corny and boring.

[@jessicawade2858]

Throw the whole show away! No thanks for a spinoff!

[@ammabthedigitallynomadic3385]

How about "Black".... just black😐

[@TheMsklg1981]

Amma b Yessssss 💕💕💕

[@indiashante1560]

Yes LMAO

[@jeronicabaldwin9589]

lol

[@booginas]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@dudeseriously57]

How about a show called "Negro Please"

[@bk4eva_876]

A young Jenifer Lewis and Laurence Fishburne woulda been lit. They definitely missed a great opportunity.

[@aNg134u]

Especially the scene with her blowing up the boat and her been taken away in handcuffs laughing maniacally.

[@Machenziethemodel]

BK4Eva _ yep 😆

[@tish1920]

Yes

[@Smileychild22]

Right. They are way more interesting as characters

[@majornija]

BK4Eva _ i def don’t care about Rainbow’s upbringing.

[@makimoments]

All we asked for was a spin off of Junior at an HBCU but no...they keep giving us mess after mess

[@QueenNaestar]

I thought there was a spin off of the older daughter going to college but I can be wrong though.

[@LuckiiCharmz85]

Nae there is but we're talking about Junior going to an HBCU not a PWI

[@sadegarrett6084]

@@QueenNaestar they do. Its called grown-ish

[@QueenNaestar]

@@LuckiiCharmz85 I see, got it! And I agree. That will be such a shock of the culture for his ass.

[@QueenNaestar]

@@sadegarrett6084 Yeah, that's right! Thanks. Is it any good? I pay so much in cable and barely watch shit.

[@icameisaws4829]

Nobody: LITERALLY noboby: Not a SINGLE soul: Kenya Barris: "Mixed-ish"

[@decemberdarling6058]

😂😂😂

[@ruthmt81]

Maybe he had an idea for a show and wanted to make it. Just a thought.

[@justice7550]

@@ruthmt81 They're just mad that a Black man gave his Biracial wife a whole arse platform to voice her Biracial experience.

[@brendafromthebay1522]

I feel like mixedish is going be problematic. I’m almost 100% sure there going to have the storyline of rainbow getting bullied by dark skin girl because she ugly and thinks rainbow is pretty

[@thefuture3376]

BrenMeetsWorld your acting like that’s not a reality the reason why you mentioned it is because it is a reality.

[@cadenses9670]

BrenMeetsWorld you do understand that, that is a real issue right? it’s called colorism

[@jaimeeclair8999]

@@thefuture3376 It's the opposite honey, e.g. basketball wives

[@avery465]

@@jaimeeclair8999 it goes both ways

[@cazsevanen9835]

Nah, she's friends with the dark skinned girls.

[@nawbeech4789]

Chile, I don't even watch Black-ish so I sholl ain't watching no damed Mixed-ish.

[@darleneparsons8536]

Me either. I don't watch Blackish anyway.

[@maryandsamsbabygirl4988]

Me either. Just couldn't get into black-ish 🤷🏾

[@AmiAki]

TwinkleStar Same haven’t seen a single episode at all just clips.

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

Okay I know I'm not 🙄

[@kourtneydenisee]

Ok! 👏🏾

[@curlykane4000]

Black content for a white gaze. Well said.

[@CN-zs9tf]

I do agree with the fact that blackish is already a mixedish not even just because the mother is mixed but the entire premise of the show revolves around the fact that since the parents have acquired wealth they feel as if their kids and themselves are so far removed from the black experience thus creating the term black-ish it’s the story is not relatable to most black people

[@tiffaniesnead1052]

Well said! I totally agree!

[@michelleramsey4302]

WELL SAID!!!!

[@MT-hk9cp]

I see what you're saying but let's not generalize "is not relatable to most black people". I totally related to Blackish but I would prefer they have Junior go to Howard (my school) and just do a version of Different World.

[@zanettarose]

Well put!

[@miriamhavard7621]

Yep-ish.......

[@themelexperience7628]

Deadass I just want a girl next door DARK SKIN VISIBLY UNDENIABLY BLACK Main character. Damn

[@thia9868]

The Mel Experience right seems like it’s so hard to ask for .wth I look like supporting this show ?? grownish biracial lead character, blackish biracial lead characters , mixedish biracial lead character . 🙄

[@themelexperience7628]

Light Skin Love that’s nice, I didn’t ask you but hey do what you do. But you do realize what happens when a market gets over saturated right? Reroute your GPS

[@Fairybongmother]

I'd watch it if it was Dre's parents, because that would actually be entertaining! Her parents have been so boring.

[@thotcrimez4252]

Blackish is mixish 😭

[@tylonahambrick2837]

No it’s not , their presented as Black in the show black-ish their being presented as mixed in the show mixed-ish Blackish May have mixed people in it , but their being passed off as black . I’m glad they came out with a show where mixed people are being represented as Mixed instead of one dropped as black , i want to see a show with a biracial narrative . I will be watching , I didn’t watch blackish but I will be watching this .

[@phyllishahart6111]

I’m starting to see a lot more of interracial advertising on products and on tv. No issue, I’m just noticing

[@jonathandouglaslawrie3569]

Yep. As a mixed kid I love seeing the representation.

[@nawbeech4789]

Girl, you barely even see black couples on TV now. And I don't even watch TV like that so for me to notice means it's pretty conspicuous and common.

[@sunnymarie2060]

Mixed couples advocated for more representation. And here u have it.

[@counterfeitfenty2414]

As a mixed person, there's an agenda going on

[@vickihill8999]

@@jonathandouglaslawrie3569 well I hope you don't claim black.

[@kimberley3577]

I love it when you get this upset and DRAGGGGG😂😂😂😂😂

[@ayoreef9683]

I miss when they just had regular black family sitcoms

[@antoniojones5295]

Like Roc, 227, Good times

[@kikib.4519]

yes I agree.

[@kaylao.3326]

Ayo Reef!! The Cosby’s, Jefferson’s, Seinford and Son, Fresh Prince

[@Tajha003]

Cree Summers would have been a good one to cast for Rainbows mom....

[@jenniferwade7861]

I think one of the Mowry twins or Jurnee Smollett would be perfect

[@jenniferwade7861]

@TheButtermilkgirl Come on now, she didn't do anything!

[@jenniferwade7861]

@TheButtermilkgirl I'm with you on that😊

[@sORrYiMLaTEwHAtdiDiMiSs.]

Cree Summers, haven't heard that name in along time!! One if the Mowry sisters, I think!!

[@Tajha003]

@@sORrYiMLaTEwHAtdiDiMiSs. She played Freddie from A different World and voice damn near every cartoon voice from Mr. Gaget and Angelica from Rugrats and everything in between....

[@ThatLadyDray]

😲 *Mixed-ish? MIXED-ISH?! HUH?! * in my Soulja Boy voice

[@zammymynakersnackstbmoth]

Lawd...🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ ain't nobody asked for this. And how you got a show called blackish but refuse to show the episodes that matter to us.

[@kourtneydenisee]

z a myers 🗣🗣

[@missshannonsunshine]

it’s blackISH

[@majornija]

z a myers they do. They just water them down to make them palatable to white folks. Have you seen the Juneteenth episode.

[@sassygreen5024]

Um it's called blackish not black.

[@ampmri2434]

It sounds like a cop out, but that's actually where "Blackish" gets it right. Some black folks go to live in the suburbs and forget where they came from.

[@JoiDior]

Agreed that Tika looks nothing like Bow’s mom in Blackish. Maybe they chose Tika Sumpter because her real life husband is white. Maybe they felt she could relate 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@BClanay]

JoiDior I was thinking the same thing

[@HeyMonica]

Ain’t nobody gonna watch that..They might as well cancel it before the premiere. Chile Bye 👋🏾

[@princesspai1975]

Lmao😅🤣😂

[@TheMsklg1981]

HeyMonica! Right. The title alone is cringed 😖

[@justice7550]

I certainly will be watching🤣

[@Nisinique]

Maya Rudolph would be perfect.

[@lrs1519]

Nisinique yeahhh she looks just like the woman who plays her mom today.

[@Mloveblacque_always]

Totally

[@ampmri2434]

Rudolph would be funny. I don't care, just let the actress be funny. Black-ish is hella boring.

[@reneehaa9684]

Right plus she actually looks like the women who plays Bow mom.

[@ObeyAmmalol]

Renee Haa true and she’s a really great comedic actress

[@tottieyana4994]

I wanna see Junior going to a HBCU after his gap-year, not ‘mixed-ish’.

[@calibeauty1222]

Wurmin' this is an excellent idea!

[@MT-hk9cp]

He decided to go to Howard but then decided he need a break before he goes

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

I think bc junior isn't really complex as a character the same way zoey. Zoey has more of the anti hero elements that becoming with characters in films and TV today

[@LaToyaAcademia]

Do not get me started about blackish. The show that is a whitewashed version of a black show on a major network.. Give me the Cosby's, Living Single, 227, The Jefferson's, A different world ON PRIME TIME TV. This is why I don't have cable.

[@Machenziethemodel]

LaToya H 227 was my show 😆

[@ampmri2434]

Yeah, Black-ish was boring from the get-go. I'd rather watch re-runs of those older shows. They are way better quality sitcoms.

[@ashleymailer6376]

No Footy Skater the jokes literally cater to a white audience with the jokes being over played that are frankly mellowed down over the years. The Cosby show was centered around a wealthy family but were still able to capture both the black and white audience using elements of being black and white world....

[@NicoleTheeHomebody]

@@Mvvp2290 lmfao first of all there are Black Hispanic people. Hispanic is a culture not a race.

[@makahlataufelogo4709]

LaToya H I love a different world

[@MsKat22115]

I have never watched black-ish before and don't plan to watch mix-ish. Cancel all of it.

[@KingofReads]

LISTENNN

[@Nappy2theRoot]

Black-ish is really good tho

[@Briel_2u]

Black-ish is a pretty good show. It’s kind of like a modern day “The Cosby’s”.

[@stassiiiiiiaa3799]

U ain’t missing much. Some episodes are good but some are kinda problematic to me. Idk.

[@thelifeuchoose]

Agree

[@makimoments]

Did Rainbow's mom start bleaching her skin 😭😭😭

[@mixdkid1]

makimoments I’m guessing she started bleaching her skin

[@FreyaEinde]

She traded with light skin Randell from this is us

[@mynameisblossom2096]

I hated the colorism episode on grownish. They handle it poorly. Also dont understand Ana and Aaron relationship. How can you be pro black but sleep white. I'm not the only one that peep that

[@yvvngmlaba]

MynameisBlossom Surely Ana is Latinx so I don’t see why you’d say she’s white

[@mynameisblossom2096]

@@yvvngmlaba why do people get ethnicity, nationality, and race confuse? Ana race is white or what I like to call it spicy white 😂. Her nationality will be Cuban. Ethnicity will be latina.

[@reneehaa9684]

She not white lol. And why does it matter who u date? As long as the person u with respect your race why does it mattter. U got black people out her who don't respect other black people.

[@mynameisblossom2096]

@@reneehaa9684 it doesn't matter, but when you are pushing this problack agenda it does. When someone is problack it means they "embody everything that is black". That means you support black businesses, BLACK LOVE, black families and etc. That's the problem have with their relationship. It contradict what Aaron stand for

[@mermaidtingzzz]

Highkey, feel like they put Aaron in an interracial relationship because he's the darkest person on the show. Just juxtaposing that with how he feigned interest in dark skin African girl bc the twins and Luka dragged him for his colorist ways...which is never properly delved into or fully, thoughtfully challenged. It comes off pretty anti-dark skin. For people who have an issue with dark skin it just makes sense to them that a browner person would naturally be adverse or just not see beauty in a person darker than them, and that's the type of content Barris generates imo.

[@gabbyquigley]

Mixed-ish doesn't even roll off the tongue. AND I 100% agree Anthony's parents should have been given the spin off! They're a BILLION times more interesting.

[@AmiAki]

And here I thought Black-ish was basically mixed-ish with cast and whatnot. The ‘Mixed-ish’ spin off is still the dumbest thing Ive heard today.

[@brya8641]

I swear I love your commentary. You be hitting them points. U r deffinitly the KING of reads

[@nerdfantasyxox]

I never got into Blackish. The mediocrity seeps through the very five minutes and I was never able to complete a single episode of it.

[@RisingStarFalls]

meka sky It’s just a corny ass concept of a show. Grown-ish made me cringe so hard. I stopped watching halfway into the season mainly because Yara’s acting is terrible to me

[@lakeishag76]

I’m glad you made this video because as soon as I saw it on Instagram I felt the same way

[@Kueenenchantment]

I don't watch regular tv anymore, it's become to repetitive. I'mma just stick to fantasy, anime and documentaries.🙄🤷🏾‍♀️

[@MsKat22115]

This!!!

[@HungarGaming]

I love my anime!!! I am the same way!

[@Machenziethemodel]

Queen Enchantment Kdramas are my favorite 😆

[@Kueenenchantment]

@@Machenziethemodel I love boys over flowers, and heirs. But animes are my shit, especially Tokyo ghoul.

[@Machenziethemodel]

Queen Enchantment boys over flowers was my jam. Now that I look at it I see how bad it was 😆

[@BecomingB]

Where are all the people in these meetings to say NO!!!!!!! BLACKISH IS ALREADY MIXEDISH WTF

[@toogood2btrubk]

3 of the 6 family members are mixed i hate it. The colorism eposide already fell short guilting the brother to like dark skin or black woman and equating the issues of light skin blacks to dark skin blacks as if there is a equal pain i hate the b.s love your channel Justin.

[@ladaca-yi1xm]

toogood2btrubk 4 are mixed. The mom,both brothers( the little boy mom is white) and the oldest daughter 😱 It’s a shame.

[@TheMsklg1981]

ladaca 2098 The little boys mom is white?? I’m so sad hear this news 😢

[@thinktankindi2664]

You guys need to get over it. Too much colorism and division. Dont you know that the average black person in America is 25 percent European. Look...we all mixed.

[@rosem3259]

There is to much self hate in the black community to keep making these blackish mixed ish spinoff shows, like they doing to much and it's only in my opinion adding fuel to that self hate in those black people who suffer from it and we need to be making more shows about black love

[@serenity8901]

Facts but they don't want that. We need more shows like Moesha or Parenthood everyone was actually black & those shows did great even the Cosby show would've been great with just the 3 younger children.

[@maryse8]

Prime time television will never be the place to find serious issues about black folks being explored. Never.

[@mallabooparis9176]

They need to cancel that show period!!!!

[@Amberm1997]

I would have definitely preferred to watch a show about Andre’s parents! Jennifer Lewis and Laurence Fishburne are hilarious!

[@mawnee3000]

Amber Marcus Yes... even their flashbacks are hilarious!

[@MitchYouCantScratch]

They would not have had Lewis and Fishburne play folks in their 30s.

[@audib6592]

The name "Black-ish" always felt a awkward to me. I couldn't understand if the name was supposed to be attributed to EITHER: 1) Their suburban way of living. Or 2) Rainbow's (& all the kids BESIDES Marsai's character ) mixed appearances. It never sat well with me and felt as though the producers were trying to say, " Look at this Black family thats not REALLY a black family because 4 out of the five kids are of a lighter complexion. Not to mention they do not act like the TYPICAL black person because they are awkward suburbanites that did not have a (insert trials and tribulations subplot here) upbringing!". 😑

[@MT-hk9cp]

Can someone explain to me what is a TYPICAL Black person? We have many different experiences just like other races so there isn't one definition

[@audib6592]

@@MT-hk9cp Completely agree. Which is why I don't like the concept of the name "Black-ish". Its like a backhand to those black people, like myself, who have happened to grow up in the suburbs.

[@miriamhavard7621]

I could not have said it better myself!!!! And I LOVE Anthony Anderson!!!! AND Anna Deveare Smith!

[@MT-hk9cp]

@@audib6592 I actually like the name "Black-ish" even though I grew up in a rural community, I can relate to a lot of the issues they have on the show. Funny thing is that my parents never wanted to move to a white neighborhood or join the country club even thought they were asked numerous times. My actual family are several different shades of blackness so I understand that but did you notice in the movie US the family was brown/dark COMPLECTED and AFFLUENT!? Which I liked. And if you notice it's the husband who grew up in the hood who is straddling the fence of raising his kids in two different worlds. The wife also has a somewhat foreign experience because she was raised a mixed race kid of hippies in a commune The creator Kenya Barris based it on his life and his wife who is the mixed race real life Dr. Rainbow.

[@DanielleLavirgo]

They were so busy trying to cast mixed and light skinned ppl in Blackish that they got a mom who wouldn’t have had Rainbow accurately. She would have been more white passing than Bow.

[@staysunny170]

Agree. I love Blackish but whoever cast Bow's parents ought to be fired

[@stassiiiiiiaa3799]

U got the best content on KZbin. Nobody else woulda touched this

[@juicyparsons]

Your purple locs are poppin and I know from experience purple is the hardest color to rock but you doin it!!

[@cynthialashawnchannel]

I wanna know the backstory of the grandma and grandpa, not that other stuffz

[@elenawalker9870]

Blackish is playing it too safe I stop watching yrs ago.

[@JazmynMercado]

I love this show. I’m a mixed child and I identify a great deal with this show. It’s hard being of two worlds and trying to figure out where you fit in. You’re either too this or too that for either side so to see a show like this that has some comic relief but tackles the issues I’ve dealt with is refreshing not only for my but for my own children as they grow up.

[@kharikhy-ree2242]

I don't watch Blackish Grownish and won't be watching Mixedish. So yawn.

[@ampmri2434]

I don't watch Wack-ish either.

[@ChristalJ]

Reverse Aunt Viv Also with Tika it could be a fetishization thing 👀

[@TheMorganVEVO]

Christal J What could be a fetishization thing? Tika or the show?

[@notaytguru8214]

Morgan Carroll I think she means tika because she’s dark skin

[@TheMorganVEVO]

NOT a YT Guru ! Ohh. That logic seems weird to me. When dark skinned women are excluded, it's colorist. But when they're included, it's fetishization? Idk. I think Tika is a dumb choice because the real mom was much lighter and damn near white-passing. Maybe the producers just wanted to capitalize off of the new awareness and attention surrounding dark-skinned people in the black community. I guess they think people will pay more attention to it if there is a bigger contrast between the man's color and the woman's color. A light-skinned woman wouldn't look as different next to a fully white man.

[@notaytguru8214]

Morgan Carroll agreed, people are equally bothered when they’re excluded as included. I’ll never get it. I remember watching a review of the movie girls trip. People were upset that a dark skin woman was portrayed as oversexy. If the character was lightskin, the commentary would have changed to Hollywood doesn’t think dark skin women can play sexy roles. I was just happy a lot of sistas were working 🤷🏽‍♀️ And yea, her playing the mom is terrible since they already showed her in present time. Seeing the contrast of a dark woman next to a white man does make it stand out more. The woman they currently have playing bow’s mother is racially ambiguous to me, she doesn’t scream black woman

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

Yep

[@Kristmaz808]

All those black shows on local tv always have a light skin wife I can go down the list but why... martin was my favorite show and every character had personality... now a days robots are speaking I can't ugh lololol

[@IamDannaGee]

But in black-ish Rainbow’s mom was white but in Mixed-ish Tika Sumpter will play her mom that doesn’t make since

[@VanityMania]

No, her mother was light skinned black woman. Her father was white.

[@Olivia-qg2qh]

@@VanityMania Yes you're right .. her mother is just a light skin black woman. Tika Sumpter is still dark though so I don't understand

[@EbonyJoneskuye]

@@Olivia-qg2qh So she is dark. We get it!

[@shawnhall3849]

Vanity Insanity Her mom was lighter than light. High yellow perhaps

[@SonjaS222]

Did they hire the Casting Director from Lifetime? If Rainbow’s mom is super light in Black-ish then she should be light skinned in Mixed-ish for consistency.

[@augustware2345]

Black ish castings never made sense to me and they don’t really talk about something real, it’s like they make every thing sweet and lighthearted

[@inscene7]

Lol the gag is... the only spin off from the show we would like to see is Diane(marsai martin) maybe going off to college... cause the lightskin daughter and her show is....... not the tea at all

[@bluedoo2495]

Right, they are all boring and not very good actors

[@blackbeautyty8806]

I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!!’ Bc u took ALL my thoughts‼️‼️‼️

[@lovestar915]

Charlamagne tha God took “ma ma ma ma mayonnaise music “ from you are you going to sue him?

[@ladaca-yi1xm]

Isiah singleton I peeped that a while back. CTG should have gave Justin credit and gave a shoutout to his channel because he obviously watches.

[@brandygee9954]

I caught that when he said it too!

Well if y’all steady claiming mixed people aren’t black why do you even care if mixed folks have a show lol.

[@nekwhite9568]

We Don’t Care That Mixed People Have A Show, We Care That WE (Black People) Have A Show Called Blackish With A Cast Of Mixed People... Blackish Shoulda Been Dark Skinned & Brown Periodt!

[@mamat1213]

This is crazy and so disappointing... my teen daughter loved this show but I've been leary for a while😣 she's a creative who writes fiction and lately her characters have all been biracial...when I gently asked where are the beautiful dark skinned girls like her she basically echoed the lie that her stories wouldn't appeal widely if characters are 'just' black. My heart is broken but we're being sent this msg constantly

[@mariaquintero9742]

The writers were sloppy with certain details of the show. Rainbow Johnsons birthday in Blackish is October 29, 1976. If she was born in 1976 she would be 9 in 1985 however the age she's playing in Mixedish in 1985 is 12. Those kind of oversights irk me!

[@mrshappilymarried1]

Honey Chile nothing else makes my day like seeing my man Justin go slap off!!! Make It Make Sense!!!!! Yaaasssss!!!!🤣😂😁😀🤣😆😉

[@tertra114]

Realistically it makes MORE sense to cast Tika anyway! If Rainbow’s mom was really as Ambiguous as the current actress playing her, Rainbow would be straight up WHITE looking, not the beige and relatively African-American looking Tracy Ross we have, I could see Tracy Ross (who honestly doesn’t look THAT mixed) being the product of Tika and a white man, and there is NOTHING wrong with mixed people’s story being told, I REPEAT, there is NOTHING wrong with mixed people’s story being told, just because YOU don’t see it as worthy and “hard enough” of an identity, does not mean that others won’t!!!

[@DorisClay]

I'm interested in if mixed people will relate to it because I've heard enough stories of them feeling like they don't belong to either side, so it could be interesting if done right. I would rather it be about a different unrelated family though.

[@Anisha618]

Christina Yang on grey's anatomy date dr.burke who was a black man played by Isaiah Washington

[@kdub8305]

"Storm, or Scattered Showers......" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@TheStringray2]

Did you just say a mixed person is just as black as a dark skin black person..? 🙄

[@chocolaterini17]

Yeah he one drops mixed ppl😒😒

[@meekyw.4010]

👏 in my Kandi voice "speak on it"

[@sickeningkamiyah_6357]

First off Grownish should have been at a HBCU ON PERIOD!!!!

[@llove1012]

They already couldn't have the show black ish without having a biracial character (just like dear white people) and kids with lighter features. And yass, Shonda loves an interracial relationship. You know what messed up the movie Little for me? That white love interest. Sorta like in The Hate U Give...

[@themissingink444]

YES! I would have LOVED to see Ruby and Pops raising Dre and his sister. Ruby blowing up his boats etc. lol

[@Metaphysicalmindspace777]

Some people will watch. If no one watches it will go away. Quickly.

[@loveheals6184]

ALL OF THIS! Thanks so much for this video, Justin.

[@mwd_ash]

I’m so weak 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and also when I heard the title Mixed-Ish I was like huh 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@kathrinecollins-williams6417]

Rainbo mother must've gotten a chemical peel when she got older

[@marcusinHD]

thats is what black ppl get for uplifting and defending the dilution of dark skinned blacks. i support mixed ppl separating from us, they have unique experiences that they should be able to embrace.

[@CharmingDiva]

The ending, of this video was everything! 😂😂 I totally agree with Justin

[@Kristmaz808]

I don't watch black-ish too corny for me the only star on that show is Tracey and that youngest girl..,

[@kiaminaya5731]

I legit dont understand people getting so in their feeling over mixedish. See how black ish was addressing raising mixed kids in a generation where black culture ire becoming pop culture. Most of the "black" content is from Dre and his parents, whom has a very stereotypical black upbringing and struggles in wanting to impart this to his kids while learning to let go on the black stereotypes/traditions that are unhealthy. Mixedish is about raising sheltered mixed race children in a generation with interracial couples were starting to be accepted. Its not even close to the same show so why are yall so mad at it. Most of yall had an upbringing like Dre, but how many hear can honestly say theyve ever heard of a person raised in a cult where race was not taught, brought into a society where races lines and stereotypes where already dealt, and had to learn to adapt to what they could only understand as madness. Thats a unique pov and it DESERVES its own show.

[@Tayamyre]

If it ain't a drink, I don't care about nothing mixed

[@NVme08]

This is the beginning of the end of Black-ish

[@bobgray6498]

I didn't know the Colin Kaepernick episode was shelved. I watched it on Hulu I don't have a problem with what it's called. Maybe part of it is marketing, but Rainbow is biracial and biracial people have their own unique experiences that I would be interested in seeing tbh The casting is inconsistent as hell, I guess we're supposed to suspend our disbelief on that one lol

[@KingofReads]

You didn't see that episode trust me www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/blackish-episode-kneeling-athletes-shelved

[@bobgray6498]

@@KingofReads I remember seeing an episode called Hope that addressed the BLM movement, so you're right lol it's so strange they'd air that one and not the Colin one

[@Steady4word]

King of Reads, just to clarify: Shonda Rhimes DID have an non-white, interracial couple - Season 1 & 2, Christina Yang and Dr. Burke.

[@TTSantiago821]

What's weird is that the woman that plays rainbows mom currently, more than likely wouldnt produce rainbow, Santa Monica and the other brother. She would probably produce children that looked like Mariah Carey which tracee Ellis Ross does not. More often than not, when u have a very light black person mate with a white person the child comes out Mariah Carey or halsey like. It makes sense more sense for a woman like Tika Sumpter and a white man to produce a rainbow. But they messed that all up with the woman they have playing rainbows mom now. Idk.....but this show may or may not go over well.

[@TTSantiago821]

@Turquoise Purple Sky I said typically, not always. Diana Ross has a bit more color than the actress who plays rainbows mother. I know what my family produces and looks like so I have in house knowledge. Look at me....I know a bit about this lol. If I didnt know Diana Ross was with a white man, I would have thought tracee was just a lightskin black woman. People think 2 black parents cant produce a child that looks like Tracee and they can.

[@TTSantiago821]

@Turquoise Purple Sky they are. And when I saw the woman who played rainbows mother, I thought it was odd. Girls who look like Alicia keys, yara shahidi, and tracee Ross typically have a brown or darker skin parent when one parent is white.

[@yougotta2505]

finally someone talking about this

[@Victor-pv2pk]

Tika is in a interracial relationship in reality

[@em.415]

Victor I met her when she was with her husband and kid. She’s a cool chick.

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

And!!!! Tinka Sumpter is hollyweird's token "black" Yes I said it😁

[@TheMsklg1981]

I'm just me Yes she is and I’m sure her gaining a white husband is no coincidence.

[@yeahiguess9702]

Isn't that all black people in Hollywood?

[@BubburTee]

Her and Gabrielle Union

[@serenity8901]

I agree with you 💯 at first i wasn't sure were this was going but i loved it😍

[@Yawopy]

you are so right. you never see interracial couples other than between whites and blacks. i’m black and puerto rican i wanna see that on tv!!!!

[@Thatcaramelchic]

This was soo funny omg 😂😂😂😂😂

[@octbaby88]

It's the Meghan Markle effect...black people, especially, I have to say it, black women, elevated Markle since her marriage to Harry. So now Hollywood is capitalizing on it. How many black people were checking for Markle prior to her engagement and marriage to Harry? It's going to be black women claiming Markle's 75% white child and elevating her white child as a black child...we are sometimes the instrument to our own erasure when it come to representation.

[@XxSmartiesxX_]

U got a new subscriber out this video. I didn’t even kno they were making a mixed -ish show

[@LoveTam]

I too was like damn I thought Rain's mom was mixed on Blackish

[@Neo.Jordon]

Love the title lmao

[@baddie_loveforever7205]

Justin I just love you. You are spot on!!

[@19GENESE13]

I’m on the fence about it. Having a show about growing up mixed in America will definitely be representation for lots of people, but it will be repetitive since they’ve covered it on blackish. Rainbows parents were very boring. The mother seemed to have an interesting point of view, but coupled with the dad they became a stereotypical hippie couple

[@carminenights2813]

With over a hundred years of mixed experience from many relatives and myself,they should go back to the commune.

[@zaddyghost]

Hilarious how black people became the bbq beckys when it comes to mixed people 😂

[@michaelermcgowaniv]

the woman who plays bow's mom is like high yella? Who is this melanin rich woman here?

[@joshsmit513]

I love your view on it. Honestly, I'm just tired of media trying to shove how progressive they are. Being half white and half Mexican, I don't care about learning what it's like to grow up mixed; I lived it. I miss the shows that cover the controversial shit without going out of their way to show off. Fresh Prince was a great show and they never had to stress race; when Uncle Phil went to that police station and chewed the cops out for arresting Will because he was a black man driving a nice car in a white neighborhood, that was a DEEP impact. But that's just my opinion.