Brooklyn NineNine 10 Times The Show Tackled Discrimination
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 10 Times The Show Tackled Discrimination
Although Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a comedy, that doesn’t mean it’s all sunshine and rainbows – it covers some heavy topics, too.
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Despite its popularity as a lighthearted show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine combines comedy and serious issues from time to time. With 7 seasons so far, the show explores everything from sexual harassment to the patriarchy, all without losing its signature comedic character.
Among several serious issues Brooklyn Nine-Nine tackles, discrimination is a major one. Discrimination takes many forms and Brooklyn Nine-Nine doesn’t shy away from any of them. Since discrimination of any kind is a sensitive issue, portraying it in an accurate, inoffensive way is a little tricky, but not for Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The show handles discrimination and other serious issues quite well and gives the audience a valuable lesson too, resulting in some of the best episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
10 Racial Profiling
In the season 4 episode, “Moo Moo,” Terry is subjected to racial profiling, despite being a cop himself. At the time, he’s outside his home, without his badge, looking for his kid’s toy, but another cop assumes he’s up to no good. When Terry tries to tell him that he lives in the area, the cop assumes he’s lying because he doesn’t “look” like someone who’d live there.
The cop eventually apologizes after confirming that Terry is a cop too, but his apology brought up a deeper issue because he said he wouldn’t have stopped him if he’d known he was a cop – basically saying that he thought his actions were reasonable for a civilian. While Brooklyn Nine-Nine does its best in terms of equal representation, this episode shows that they acknowledge the serious issue of racial profiling, and how difficult it was for Terry to deal with.
9 Gender Discrimination
In season 5 episode 15, “The Puzzle Master,” Holt meets Captain Olivia Crawford, one of his rivals for the position of Police Commissioner. Throughout the episode, the two characters take jabs at each other as Olivia suggests Holt should drop out because he’s old and has outdated ideas.
Olivia is the only woman competing for the position, a decision revealed to be a PR ploy by one of the members of the selection committee who laughed off the idea of a female Commissioner. As someone who was sidelined several times in his career on account of his race and sexual orientation, Holt took offense to this and announced that he’d be withdrawing his name until there was a committee that would consider all candidates equally, regardless of their gender.
8 Homophobia (Holt)
As a gay Black man, Holt faced a lot of discrimination. Even though he’s the first openly gay man to be appointed as captain when the pilot airs, his backstory throughout the seasons shows getting there wasn’t easy. In season 1’s “The Party,” the squad meets Kevin, Holt’s husband, for the first time and sadly discovers that he doesn’t like cops.
Thanks to some brilliant detective work by Jake, they realize that Kevin’s attitude is a result of the homophobia Raymond faced from his colleagues over the years, in particular from a photograph where he and Holt were left to stand on one side, while his colleagues gathered on the other.
7 Homophobia (Rosa)
One of the big reveals of the fifth season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is Rosa’s bisexuality. After Charles accidentally finds out about it, Rosa confides in the rest of her squad, who are completely supportive. It didn’t go over so well when she came out to her parents.
Her parents both refuse to accept or understand her sexual orientation, but Rosa’s father eventually comes around and apologizes. Her mother needs more time and Rosa’s father tells her family game night is off the cards for a while. Thanks to Jake and the rest of the squad who show up at her apartment after that for their own version of Game Night, this one has a bit of a happier ending.
6 Racial Discrimination (Holt)
Despite his high rank when the series premieres, Captain Holt faced a lot of discrimination on his way to the top. The audience hears of his many struggles through snippets of his backstory strewn throughout the series. These usually come up as part of a grand speech he’s making or a lesson he’s trying to teach his squad.
In the pilot, Captain Holt mentions that on his first day as a cop, a fellow officer asked him if he was there to report a crime. He got variations of this racial discrimination throughout his career, in addition to everything he faced for being a member of the LGBTQ community.
5 Ageism
To create a safe, inclusive space for fellow members of the Black and LGBTQ community, Holt launched an organization called the African-American Gay and Lesbian New York City Policeman’s Association before his assignment to the Nine-Nine. He led the organization for years until Brian Jensen competed against him during re-elections in episode 17 of season 1, “Full Boyle.”
When Captain Holt finds out about his competitor, he tells Gina they must destroy him. His initial objection was that, unlike him, Brian was young and hadn’t spent 25 years struggling to be heard. With Gina’s help, he realizes that he’s discriminating against the young man and subjecting him to the very thing he created the organization to protect people like him from.
4 Gender Inequality
The evolution of Jake and Amy’s relationship from colleagues to friends to lovers is one of the most loved things of the show. When things get serious between them, Amy introduces Jake to her father, a former detective. To prepare and impress him, Jake creates a folder with all he needs to know about Mr. Santiago, including the cases he worked on.
Mr. Santiago catches Jake sneaking off to do research from the folder and the two discuss a case in the folder that Mr. Santiago failed to solve. They decide to work on the case once more and question the family of men associated with the case to no avail. They only manage to solve the case when they realize that they wrote the daughter off as a suspect because she’s a woman.
3 Patriarchy
When Jake and Amy’s father, Mr. Santiago, meet in the seventh episode of season 4, “Mr. Santiago,” they butt heads over many things. Jake is initially keen to gain his approval and Mr. Santiago is determined not to give it. The two continue to bicker until Amy reminds them they’re in the 21st century and neither of them has any say in the matter of what’s best for her. Mr. Santiago acknowledges his patriarchal behavior and makes peace with Jake, who in turn acknowledges that he loves Amy because she’s a strong woman who can make her own decisions.
2 A Woman’s Place In The World
In the season 5 episode, “Moo Moo,” Jake and Amy are tasked with babysitting Terry’s twin children, Cagney and Lacey. At first mindless tasks, fun, and games keep the girls sufficiently distracted until they begin asking difficult questions.
One of those questions is about what their father is going through, having been racially profiled by a fellow officer. After a few moments of panic, Amy and Jake finally open up to the girls that the world is a difficult and complicated place, in particular to women and Black people, to which the girls express their concern at whether they’ll be subjected to the same treatment.
1 Workplace Discrimination
Season 5’s “He Said, She Said,” brought up the #MeToo issue. Amy and Jake work on a case together and at one point, Amy opens up about her own #MeToo experience. While she was still a cop in a different precinct, her captain gave her all the best cases and put her on the fast track to becoming a detective.
Once she made detective, her captain treated her to a celebratory dinner and tried to kiss her because he felt she owed him for becoming a detective. Not only did he attempt to sexually assault her, but he also psychologically abused her, making her believe she couldn’t have achieved what she did on her own because she was a woman.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/brooklyn-nine-nine-episodes-tackled-discrimination/
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