But there's a built-in tension to "black-ish": the burden placed on black stories, and on the artists who tell them, to be not merely good but inspirational.
This is what is known as the black person's burden".
"White racism may be the black people's burden, but it is the white people's problem.
Admittedly, the above narrative erases a great deal, not least what Hall called "the black person's burden".
Bogle is sympathetic to the extra burden black performers have had to carry, judged not only for their acting but for the parts they've chosen to play.
To entrench their tenuous majority, North Carolina Republicans raised barriers that they knew would disproportionately burden black voters, and they did so because of, not despite, those racial effects.
"There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the N.A.A.C.P., when I asked him about Obama's obligation.
As delivered by Grant in the novel, this crucial speech defines his own pain, his own bitterness at having to be courageous in the face of the black man's burden.
Idi Amin was already the black man's burden, the figure that was borne in that palanquin was that of the archetypal King Ubu, who weaves in and out of history, leaving behind a swathe of blood and devastation.
(Jaworowski 20091224 ★ 'THE EMPEROR JONES' Ciaran O'Reilly's inspired, poetic production of Eugene O'Neill's short, brutal drama — starring a wondrous John Douglas Thompson — finds Jungian echoes of universal resonance in a work often perceived as a dated portrait of the black man's burden (1 10).
