The Top 3 Most-Woke "Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" Episodes From Season 2
I Watched This Shit-Show So You Don't Have To.
[TRIGGER WARNING: SOME JACKS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ARTICLE]
Now, I know what you’re thinking.
“Jack, who hurt you so much you’d actually watch this shit to research an article that only a couple hundred people are gonna read? A couple hundred people, Jack…at best. Seriously, what the fuck, Ja—”
Well, it all started when I saw a thread from a Facebook page, Dangerously Right of Marx. You see, he (yep, I assumed his gender, buy Hogwarts Legacy) shared some bits of this show, and that piqued my curiosity.
Obviously this isn’t the first I heard of the Proud Family, as news hit slamming the show for being anti-white. But it struck me as a such a bizarre concept, I couldn’t get it out of my head. I also happened to be working on another article about Wokeness, so I figured this would be a solid example.
Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is a remake of a decades old show that was known for tackling serious topics. This iteration, which targets a young-teen demographic, isn’t even subtle; it may as well just be a "Kendi-esque Antiracist” advertisement.
The show is led by a mix of racially divers— hahaha! Just kidding, it’s predominantly Not-Whites (why say BIPOC? I’ll just say what you mean), throwing in a token from time to time (mostly so they can comment on their whiteness).
Problem is, I actually research my work. So that means pulling up a relative’s account of Disney + (it was either that or take to the high seas), drinking two fingers of Glenlivet, and pressing play.
Only when I breached the fetid gates of this dismal bog did I understand how deep the quagmire sunk, and after days of research and writing, I realized I had to make this an article all its own.
The world needs to know what I have seen.
And I deserve my redemption.
And a long, hot shower.
The following is a recounting of my trauma…
Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
“Let’s see them white tears, Becky. This is progress.”
3. “Curved” (Season 2, episode 3)
In “Curved,” the main characters plan to participate in a debate, but Zoey, the token white girl, loses her voice, so they look for a replacement.
Penny, the protagonist, asks a couple people before being turned down by an Asian girl, who indignantly declares she’s not a “model minority.”
That’s to say, she assumed Penny only came to her because she was Asian, even though this asshole just happened to be next in line.
Reasonably, this confuses Penny, so a friend explains that it means the Asian girl was calling her racist.
“Black people can’t be racist,” Penny retorts.
Maya, the hoity-toity one, agrees: “Racism is prejudice plus power, but we can be jerks, I’ll give you that.”
A racism, circa 2023. Colorized.
And it moves on with no further impact on the story.
Just a little subtle redefinition of one of the most politically charged terms in our society.
S’all good.
Now, many will reasonably disagree with that deceptive definition. For those who don’t know, I’ve covered the Bidol redefinition in some depth, but suffice it to say, the goal of redefining racism this way is to essentially sidestep debates around reparations and tip the scale on narratives around race.
So it’ll come as no surprise that the crew decides to do a little slam poetry on the debate topic of, you guessed it…
“Slaves built this country and we the descendants of slaves in America have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for…”
Now, there is a lot of debate over the concept of reparations. Regardless of how one feels about the topic, to treat it as a closed-book issue would do a disservice to any intellectual discourse.
Luckily, this is propaganda and thinking ain’t the goal. The closest to confutation the viewer gets is their opponent simply saying, “I didn’t earn reparations, and I don’t need ‘em ya’ll.”
Slay king.
Arguably, at the heart of most woke doctrine — be it from the more popular DiAngelo and Kendi, to the classics like Crenshaw, hooks, or Bell (to name a few) — is the underlying theme of “give us revolution or give us reparations.”
Most are self-avowed Marxists after all, so, I guess this is just par for the course.
Speaking of DiAngelo…
2. "Juneteenth" (Season 2, episode 10)
The season finale opens with the kids in the Smithville City Jail, pumping their fists and crying out: “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”
It cuts back a week when Maya’s white, gay dad, Barry, finds out he’s descended from the city’s founder. This is relevant because they have an upcoming statue renovation celebration to honor its founding, and he’s the special guest.
After learning that Lincoln not only “didn’t care about slaves,” but wanted them deported, the socially-conscious Maya also discovers that the founder of Smithville owned slaves, and people worked to cover it up. So she wants to stop the celebration, defiantly declaring to her friends, “The only thing that needs renovating is the way history is told!”
Sorry girl, someone beat ya to it.
Later, when she tells her adoptive dad about his slave-owning ancestor, Barry rejects it, saying, “I just know my people wouldn’t have done anything like this.”
“…My people…”
I’m beginning to think the writers of this show never actually met a white person.
Anyway, this enrages Maya and Barry’s black husband, who accuses him of White Fragility®, which he describes as “being defensive about race.”
That’s not just some throwaway line either. To drive the point home, muthafuckas literally have a copy of DiAngelo’s book sitting on the coffee table. But Barry’s still not convinced and commits to the event.
Back at school, the kids are outraged.
After their teacher, "Brother Kwame,” talks them out of tearing down the statue (I’m not kidding), Maya says, “Then we’ll get into some good trouble. We will march until they take the statue down.”
Rousing her friends, Maya chants: “The people united will never be defeated!”
So they crash the event and the mayor calls in the cops, who then proceed to attack the children.
Hilariously, amidst all the resulting chaos, Barry’s husband yells out to him, “Don’t just stand there, do something.”
But when Barry looks visibly confused, his husband continues with the most glorious line in any show ever:
“Do something with your white privilege!”
“Begone, officers! The power of white privilege compels you!”
Sadly, it turns out that Barry, in all of his white glory, can’t do a damn thing. Even being a white police detective, they still just arrest his ass for…well, they never say why.
Just shut up and consume.
This brings us full circle, where everyone’s in jail, speaking directly to the camera, pleading with the audience to be an activist and “call your congressman, call the president!”
The ridiculously named “Dijonay” quips, “Definitely call the Vice President…Hi Kamala!”
“Make your voices heard!” they cry.
Anyway, when given a chance to leave, they refuse because nothing’s changed, but just like that, it cuts to one month later and they replaced the Smith statue and renamed the city after a slave-ghost.
I swear, I’m not making any of this up.
1. "The End of Innocence" (Season 2, episode 6)
In the episode Dangerously Right of Marx mentioned, the Not-Whites, including gay and gender non-conforming Michael, gets angry because Zoey is dating Noah, a black celebrity.
Specifically, they’re angry at her because he only “…goes out with the vanilla.”
“Yeah,” laments LaCienega in a video chat, “no chocolate, no caramel, no sprinkles, no nothin’.”
“What the hell is wrong with this white bitch that Noah only likes white bitches?”
“What’s wrong with us?” bemoans Dijonay.
They all uninvite her to their princess party, but she ends up crashing it all the same. Zoey accuses them of jealousy, but they say it’s nothing like that. It’s something more. What exactly, they never quite explain. Instead, they storm out.
“I actually don’t have a horse in this race,” says Michael on his way to the door. “But I gotta side with my Not-Whites.”
Incidentally, Michael won the prettiest princess contest. Do with that what you will.
Turns out it absolutely was jealousy. This is cemented later when Suga Moma asks what the problem is and Penny simply responds, “Zoey stole the boy everyone is crushing on.”
Mind you, Penny and Dijonay already have boyfriends.
Regardless, after bullying and alienating Zoey (and telling her she couldn’t realize he only liked her due to race because of her “white skin privilege”), they finally get their positive message through and she does the right thing by dumping him.
“He admitted he only dates white girls,” she says. “I’m sorry guys, I really didn’t get it.”
So, what’s the moral of the story?
“If we can’t have him, neither can she!”
No, that can’t be it. This is a good family show, right? Besides, race is involved. So, it’s gotta be:
“If he can’t see that you’re beautiful, then he doesn’t deserve you.”
Much bette—
“Also, Zoey’s a white bitch that can’t see her privilege.”
Right.
The show certainly tries to act like the problem is having a racial preference, but it only seems to qualify this by highlighting how it makes the Not-White’s feel unwanted.
Remember the boyfriends I mentioned, they don’t even get what the problem is. One shrugs the whole thing off, saying, “Everybody’s got they preferences.”
The messaging is inconsistent too. They repeatedly bounce back and forth between saying Noah only dates white girls and he’s only dating Zoey because she’s white. These are two very different things, and the crew only seems miffed with the former. For that matter, we only ever hear the latter second-hand, never from him — hell, he’s barely even in the episode.
In fact, instead of showing that he only dated Zoey for race, they actually show him passing up a more “attractive” girl for her.
“Sorry Karen, you ain’t white enough.”
The show then goes out of its way to shit on Zoey, as if to convince the audience that there just ain’t no way he would ever pick her for anything else.
“I’m ready for your sweet love, daddy.”
Granted, he does go for that other white girl after getting dumped, but given how little he’s even in the episode, that just seems shoehorned in to justify the gripes of the show.
But, okay, say he is only dating her because he likes that sweet Caucasian persuasion. So what, if she’s having a good time? And even if she would be hurt knowing he wasn’t dating her for her, wouldn’t that make him the asshole and rally her friends to support her?
Nope.
Make no mistake, throughout the bulk of the episode, literally all of the umbrage is aimed at her. That is, of course, until she acquiesces. Then they all tell her she didn’t do anything wrong: “Noah’s the jerk, not you.”
And they’re all so very sorry…now that she’s not dating him.
What makes all of this ironic as hell is that, in the episode “Curved,” another heartthrob literally dates Dijonay just to sabotage the debate, but she’s still cool with him, so the problem isn’t a dude exploiting a girl.
“It’s okay, bae, it’s not like you’re attracted to white bitches.”
Proud Family takes the gold in this year’s Mental Gymnastics.
It all smacks of the jealousy black women tend to experience with black men dating white women. Naturally, they can’t go with that because a problem needs a solution, and the Not-Whites are the victims of Noah and Zoey’s dating, they can’t possibly be a part of the problem.
The thing is, I actually know what they’re really trying (and failing) to communicate here, so I’ll do their job for them and just say it.
You see, from the woke perspective, this isn’t viewed individually, but collectively, systemically. It isn’t just a preference, it’s about perpetuating a white beauty standard; it’s seeing beauty through the “eyes of the colonizer.”
Noah isn’t attracted to white girls because that’s just his preference, it’s because our white supremacist system has brainwashed him into believing white is beautiful, white is better.
So, why go so hard after Zoey and not Noah?
Because as far as this show’s concerned, as a white girl, she was the one perpetuating a system of oppression.
Slay queen.
So empowering.