Growing up, my brother was obsessed with the show Family Matters. It was on as part of ABC’s TGIF nightly schedule and my brother loved it. Even though I was young at the time, I remember my brother loved the show with such intensity, that if my mother wanted to punish him, she would simply tell him he couldn’t watch it that upcoming week. This never ended well. This was probably my first exposure to “black situation comedy” as Coleman calls it. “(Family Matters) has been similarly criticized for being Black in the physical only. Reflections of Blackness and Black experience are nonexistent in this series, as well as many of the other post-Cosby programs in this era.” I never had anything to compare this show to, it seemed to me like any other sitcom on television but reading Coleman’s reflections now, I suppose it makes sense. Through reading Coleman’s words, I have struggled to recognize where a balance is struck. There are the oppressive and insultingly racist shows that portray black families in an incredibly negative light, or there are shows like Family Matters in which the family is accused of being “too white” and black in color only. But that was awhile ago. Have we as a society achieved a comfortalbe medium since then?