What was the point of the Black family?
They had no ties with Hanks family, plus they didn’t add anything to the history of the house. Diversity hire?
shareWho said the other families were related to Tom Hank's family.
The inventor? The natives?
Just say you're a racist Trump supporter. .
The black family added nothing to the “history” of the house and only existed to have a scene where Woke Daddy warns his son how evil the police are haha.
Diversity casting for sure, messed with the pacing.
I do agree that the police stop speech was a poor choice. I think the writers/producers were getting too political. However, as a previous poster noted, I think there are now a majority of African Americans in Philadelphia. So it would make sense that in the long history of Native Americans and then White people inhabiting that land/house, it made sense by the early 2020's to illustrate that demographics and attitudes change and where perhaps years ago it was unthinkable (if not illegal) to sell that home to an African American family, times, indeed, change.
My biggest gripe was that they had a live-in housekeeper. There is no reason why two adults with one teenage child need a live-in housekeeper to clean an 1800 square foot home. It showed the owners (regardless of race) to be spoiled and in need of status symbols. There were other ways to show that the house experienced a COVID death just as it had a century before during the Spanish Flu.