Last Night’s Black-ish Focused on Atheism (and the Pushback Against It) in the Black Community

Last night’s episode of Black-ish featured a welcome discussion about atheism in the black community. When daughter Zoey (Yara Shahidi) announces that she may not believe in God, her father Dre (Anthony Anderson) has no clue how to deal with it. He thinks he’s a bad father. Zoey’s grandmother tries to save her soul. Dre also turns the situation into a racial issue when he finds out that a lot of his white colleagues at work are also atheists. The fact that black atheists exist is a thought that’s never crossed Dre’s mind....
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