From The Golden Girls to Family Matters to Recess, these shows covered it all.
, when Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv tried to bail Will and Carlton out of jail and were ignored by the cops until Uncle Phil's white friend showed up, further demonstrating how quickly police dismiss Black voices."The episode when Will and Carlton are arrested under suspicion of stealing Uncle Phil’s boss’s car .
As a kid, I understood the message that these boys were being arrested because they were Black; had they been white, it would not have happened. But watching it again as an adult, I noticed how Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv were the first to arrive to the prison, yet the police officer refused to release Will and Carlton until Uncle Phil’s white legal partner arrived. Even with his money and education, Uncle Phil is still not taken seriously by the small-town white cops.