Roughly twenty five years ago, the culture chose to run with criminality featured over creativity.
In the past, George Jefferson owned a series of laundromats, Fred Sanford operated a junkyard, Bill Cosby was
a gym teacher and a doctor, Martin was a radio host, Carl Winslow was a cop.
Now, some of the most-watched series on tv the past five years have featured Black men relegated
to just one industry: the drug trade.
We've fallen and we can't get up.
"Lucious Lyon" - Former
drug dealer turned Hip Hop mogul on
EMPIRE
"James "Ghost" St. Patrick" -
Drug Kingpin/Club owner/Governor candidate -
POWER
"Tariq St. Patrick" - College student/
University drug dealer -
POWER BOOK 2
"Franklin" - 80s/90s Los Angeles
drug/crack dealer -
SNOWFALL
"Bumpy Johnson" - Mid 20th Century Harlem
drug kingpin -
GODFATHER OF HARLEM