Hmm ..... I wonder what they actually said?

I saw a thread titled "Please cancel this racist show" in the list above the generic "Discuss K.C. Undercover (2015) on the IMDb message boards" link. There were 18 posts and all were deleted "by an administrator." It was also flagged, "This thread is read-only. No further posts can be made." I wonder how deep under the gutter the discussion sank to warrant such action.

I've read some nasty, insult spewing, border-on-libel commentaries on IMDb and on general news sites, but have never seen everything deleted by the discussion monitors.

I wonder why people consider K.C. Undercover racist. I don't see it.

When Jessie first aired people complained that Zuri's sassiness was a "sassy black woman" stereotype (the character was 7). People also called out Ravi's Indian accent, which was clearly an effected one by an Indian-American actor (born in Redmond, Washington, and raised in nearby Bothell) who speaks standard American-accented English.

Sheesh, reading some of the discussions of Disney shows over the years it seems like the Mouse House can't win: either they are called racist for casting too few non-white actors or racist for casting non-white characters who talk like their contemporaries in the real world.

So regarding K.C. Undercover and its all-black-but-one cast, is the show racist because the one non-black main character is a stereotypical dumb blonde bordering-on-airhead white girl who loves to par-tay? (But she still looks like a Rhodes scholar next to Paisley on A.N.T. Farm.)

Oh, if we only knew what at least some of those 18 posters wrote. If only that "administrator" wasn't so quick with the delete key.

Look, I'm a 63-year-old white guy born, raised and still living in Washington state who grew up watching the Civil Rights fights on the network news in the 1960s, when black lead actors on television were few and far between. I remember one of the "breakthrough" interracial series from around 1967, called "Julia", about a black nurse. In the first episode the kindly older white doctor at the hospital who would become her boss is interviewing Julia over the phone; they've not met yet:

JULIA: But doctor I'm a Negro!
DOCTOR: Have you always been a Negro or are you just being fashionable?

This was how NBC apparently felt it had to ease American audiences into accepting a black lead character, with gentle humor: Well, Martha, if kindly old Doctor So-And-So says a Negro nurse is OK with him, then I guess she's OK with me.

But even by the late 1970s an all-black cast on prime-time network television was a rarity. There were Good Times and Sanford and Son, but that's about all I can recall.

Anyway, thoughts? Why would people, other than some afraid-to-offend-anyone scaredy-cats (who fit the "PC-people" stereotype) think K.C. Undercover is racist?

Yeah, I know filankey is not a word, but it's gonna catch on.