The Huxtables

The Huxtables depicted as an upper middle class black family, is believed to have brought about a major renewal. The miracle of this show is that it helped uplift the then-current public opinion about African Americans.

Before Bill Cosby’s show, mainstream American opinion did not evidently have room for such a concept about an African American crowded family. One can strongly assert that “The Huxtables” is the first different depiction of blacks in the history of the U.S. Bill Cosby, in his debut TV show morphed a new insight on blacks by showing the caregiver of the family as a doctor, mother a lawyer, who are in every sense smarter than their children, quite the opposite situation going on with the other shows of the time, creating sharply contrasting circumstances in terms of what majority used to think about African American family. The creator of this TV show “afforded African Americans the luxury of being black without it being a problem.”

However, Bill Cosby thinks of his work as a follower, not a prominent, concerning black issues, as he pretty much seems to be appreciating Dr. Luther King’s movement, for instance.

It is so much interesting how Bill Cosby, a comedian artist, sees the whole world as a play when he says “I’m a fan of their [Barack and Michelle Obama’s] show”. This way, Bill Cosby argues that it was Obama’s narrative that brought him victory, because he told the Americans what they had been longing to hear. The same analogy could be applied to The Huxtables, justifying their coast to coast fans and of course Emmy Award of the time.