{"id":121,"date":"2009-06-17T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/06\/black-jesus.html"},"modified":"2009-06-17T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:19:02","slug":"black-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2009\/06\/black-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Times and Black Jesus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was 8 when this Good Times episode ran. Not sure if I saw it then, although the program was a family staple back in the days when we only got three network channels and PBS. It wasn&#8217;t until I started watching reruns on YouTube recently that I realized how edgy this show really was at a time just a few years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. For those of you too young to remember, it followed the lives of a working poor black family living in &#8220;the projects.&#8221; What does this bit of 1970s culture have to say to us today?\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Note: I&#8217;m not sure about the &#8220;falsely called Jesus&#8221; message at the top of the video, but couldn&#8217;t find a clean version. Please disregard)\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TYexskpUUBI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TYexskpUUBI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 8 when this Good Times episode ran. Not sure if I saw it then, although the program was a family staple back in the days when we only got three network channels and PBS. 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