As a reported virgin who has esoteric ideas about sex, Jabari may be the only character on the show to even hint at an interest in racial politics.
"My heartfelt aspiration is mainly to make this world a better place to live in," he says at the start of the pilot. As if talking off the top of his head, he adds: "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."
Swiftly "College Hill" cuts to Kinda in an editing move that should tip viewers off to the incisive joke at the heart of this excellent show. Kinda, it seems, is also thinking about freedom.
"I feel that underwear sometimes is so constricting," she says. "And you know, we should all just be free."
| "Shunning Stereotypes, a Reality Show Stars Blacks," Virginia Heffernan's New York Times review of BET's "College Hill," makes us glad we don't have cable.
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