From You Offend Me You Offend my Family
Ever since ABC announced back in May that it was picking up a series entitled Fresh Off the Boat (based on Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name), there have been grumblings about the “offensiveness” of the name. While I get where that’s coming from, I’ve seen the pilot episode and if it’s any indication, I can say folks have nothing to worry about—if anything this has the potential to be the most three-dimensional look at an Asian American family from Hollywood since…well, you get the point.
Fresh Off the Boat’ stars Forrest Wheeler as Emery, Ian Chen as Evan, Randall Park as Louis, Hudson Yang as Eddie and Constance Wu as Jessica. (Photo by Kevin Foley/ABC via Getty Images)
So when I heard folks were still attacking the show for being racist online (I’m assuming mainly based on the title since the show hasn’t premiered yet) and that it was mainly white people shouting “racism”, I had to check it out myself.
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