Word: poussaint
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...Cosby, Poussaint recalls, was determined to keep stereotyping and put-down humor out of the show...
...precisely because of the sitcom format, Poussaint says, that the show did not directly confront issues of race and class...
...instance, Poussaint recalls a time he objected to a scene that showed the youngest Huxtable daughter, Rudy, crying as her mother combed her hair. The image, Poussaint said, fed into hurtful stereotypes in the black community of good and bad hair...
...writer of the scene replied that white children also sometimes cry when their hair is brushed. Still, Poussaint said, the image was inevitably loaded with negative associations about kinky hair. The scene was eventually removed...
...recalls vetoing one scene that called for Cliff Huxtable to start laughing upon coming home to find that Theo, the Huxtable son, had broken the living room coffee table. Poussaint notes that most parents would find such a situation annoying, not funny...