Cops gets canceled and Happy Days returns to TV. Race was a issue brought into Americas homes by these two shows

It was 1984 when the drug war started and race issues began to be distorted on TV. TV was a major part of this as COPS premiered on Saturday night replacing Happy Days, Lavern And Shirley, Love Boat, and Fantasy Island, and it ran for 30 years. Happy Days used to be Saturday nights social cue and so were the other programs. 2 weeks ago they put Happy Days back on the air on METV, and the network canceled Cops. Tom Bosley of Happy Days was 'America's Dad' during the late 70's and early 80's and race was taken on and discussed like today's episode were Merium did not even know she was being prejudiced until Tom Bosley explained her actions were prejudiced. She had a woke moment. The Fonz and Richie had a positive discussion about race and of course the Fonz was always cool and kids all over wanted to be like the Fonz or Richie. In the 70's races were just beginning to mix and in school kids were the first generation to spend 12 years together, but when the kids saw the answers to race issues first hand because of shared time and experience the parents sometimes missed a beat. TV was a way for America to learn lessons from shows that had 30 Million people watching them every weekend, and to bring the discussion into all American homes. Lavern and Shirley is on now. Have a great day as we relive the lessons that Gen X white America and our parents the Boomers learned when were kids via TV. If you want to know why there is so much hate fostered in some from Gen Y and some Millennial's TV was a direct result to social change or social derision.