The television show, Everybody Hates Chris, conveys an emic perspective of the ‘African American experience.’The black experience in America is defined as “always being suspect or being open to the possibility of being suspect.” Chris, the main character of the show, is constantly faced with racist preconceived notions and extreme microaggressions during his educational experience while attending an all-white institution. For example, in episode Everybody Hates Basketball, the school basketball coach recruits Chris for the simple fact that he is African American. Once the school discovers his poor athletic abilities, the school deems him as “useless.” The daily struggles that African-Americans endure while entering white-dominated environments
