Andre 'Dre' Johnson Sr., an African-American advertising executive who tries to pass on some of his urban culture to his seemingly uninterested children. Like any parents, Andre 'Dre' and Rainbow Johnson want to give their children the best. But their offspring's childhood is turning out to be much different than theirs. As he defines what the American dream means to his family in a multi-cultural world, one idea keeps surfacing. It appears that in this melting pot called America, we are all a little black-ish.
Beyond the character moments, "Hope" manages to work in a stunning amount of American racial history (and current events) into a single episode without coming off like a sitcom Wikipedia page.
There is no explicit conclusion because there is no conclusion to this ongoing problem in real life. It ends with them going to join the protest together, in solidarity with each other and in solidarity with their black brothers and sisters.
It was a half hour of television that, yes, leaned a little heavily on rattled-off statistics and, sure, occasionally bordered on preachy. But isn't this something worth preaching about?
