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* AbusiveParents: M.E.'s paternal grandfather was physically abusive to both of his sons, which their mother wasn't able to stop because she was working. Jimmy got the worst of it, which led to him desperately seeking an [[ParentalSubstitute alternative father figure]], which he found [[StartOfDarkness in a local klansman]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: M.E.'s father Matt veers into this late in the series when he enters the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease: he had always held fairly racist views given his upbringing, but was cognizant enough to stop voicing them in public as it became less acceptable to do so. Once his dementia begins to advance, however, his mental filter starts failing, leading to sever tragi-comic instances of this. Most notably, when the families arrive at the hospital after Kelly has her baby, he can only mutter that "the baby's awfully dark", because he's forgotten Ajoni was the father.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: M.E.'s father Matt veers into this late in the series when he enters the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease: he had always held fairly racist views given his upbringing, but was cognizant enough to stop voicing them in public as it became less acceptable to do so. Once his dementia begins to advance, however, his mental filter starts failing, leading to sever several tragi-comic instances of this. Most notably, when the families arrive at the hospital after Kelly has her baby, he can only mutter that "the baby's awfully dark", because he's forgotten Ajoni was the father.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Collier acts horribly to Kelly after she gets pregnant, to the point that he gets MistakenForRacist, but as stated in the "Reality" post, there are a ton of incredibly difficult things involved in child-rearing that she's nowhere near mature enough to handle.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Collier acts horribly to Kelly after she gets pregnant, to the point that he gets MistakenForRacist, but as stated in the "Reality" post, there are a ton of incredibly difficult things involved in child-rearing that she's nowhere near mature enough to handle.handle, and he's proven right on several occasions.
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* GenerationXerox: Kelly ends up pregnant as a teenager just like Mary Elizabeth was years earlier.
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* GenerationXerox: GenerationXerox:
** Kelly ends up pregnant as a teenager just like Mary Elizabeth was years earlier.
** Kelly ends up pregnant as a teenager just like Mary Elizabeth was years earlier.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: M.E.'s father Matt veers into this late in the series when he enters the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease: he had always held fairly racist views given his upbringing, but was cognizant enough to stop voicing them in public as it became less acceptable to do so. Once his dementia begins to advance, however, his mental filter starts failing, leading to sever tragi-comic instances of this. Most notably, when the families arrive at the hospital after Kelly has her baby, he can only mutter that "the baby's awfully dark", because he's forgotten Ajoni was the father.
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* DueToTheDead: Inverted in a darkly humorous manner; when her Klan member uncle Jimmy dies, M.E. makes a point of going to the funeral home just so she can steal a Klan medallion he wanted buried with him ''off of his body''.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Kelly and Ajoni's son is born, Collier admits to M.E. that he'd initially prayed for her to have a miscarriage before realizing what he was doing, and had been tormented by guilt for wanting, however briefly, something so horrible to happen to his child ever since. Shortly afterward when Jimmy dies, M.E., thoroughly tired of Collier's near-racist attitude toward Kelly and Ajoni's pregnancy, pointedly makes ''him'' go to Jimmy's house to get rid of all his Klan paraphenalia. Seeing what the older man became forces Collier to fully confront his own prejudices, and he ends up breaking down in tears after returning home.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Collier [[JerkassHasAPoint wasn't wrong about Kelly and Ajoni not being ready for parenthood]], but he could have gotten his point across much more effectively if he had avoided phrases like, "the black kid doing her down the hall."
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Collier [[JerkassHasAPoint wasn't wrong about Kelly and Ajoni not being ready for parenthood]], but he could have gotten his point across much more effectively if he had avoided phrases like, "the black kid doing her down the hall."" Also played with at one point when M.E. and Collier are talking to Ajoni's parents; he calls Ajoni "your boy" and Ajoni's father reacts to this as you'd expect him to ("Boy" being a standard derogatory term for an African-American man in the South). Collier is quick to protest.
-->'''Reggie:''' Our ''boy?''
-->'''Collier:''' [[ThatCameOutWrong You know that's not what I meant!]]
-->'''Reggie:''' Our ''boy?''
-->'''Collier:''' [[ThatCameOutWrong You know that's not what I meant!]]
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-->'''M.E.:''' You sonofabitch, you may have scared me when I was a little gir, but you do ''not'' scare me now!
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-->'''M.E.:''' You sonofabitch, you may have scared me when I was a little gir, girl, but you do ''not'' scare me now!
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* MamaBear: ''Do not'' threaten M.E.'s children, or she will go off on you. When her Klan member uncle Jimmy gets wind of Kelly's interracial pregnancy and burns a cross in their front yard, she goes right to his house to confront him.
-->'''M.E.:''' You sonofabitch, you may have scared me when I was a little gir, but you do ''not'' scare me now!
-->'''M.E.:''' You sonofabitch, you may have scared me when I was a little gir, but you do ''not'' scare me now!
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* PapaWolf: Collier is, to put it mildly, ''not happy'' to find out that Kelly is pregnant by her black boyfriend Ajoni (Collier grew up in a very racist household, and is shown to struggle against his ingrained beliefs on multiple occasions), but when M.E.'s uncle Jimmy gets wind of this and burns a cross in their front yard, he ''races'' across town to Jimmy's house, barges inside, and slams the near-elderly Jimmy against the wall (a confrontation made all the more realistic by Collier's actor having at least six inches and probably 40 pounds on Jimmy's)
-->'''Collier:''' You ever come near my family again, '''I WILL KILL YOU''', do you hear me, old man?!
-->'''Collier:''' You ever come near my family again, '''I WILL KILL YOU''', do you hear me, old man?!
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In the flashbacks, M.E. suffers this, mostly from within her family, for being a {{Tomboy}} and, more gratingly as far as the O'Briens are concerned, for having Rene as a BFF.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In the flashbacks, M.E. suffers this, mostly from within her family, for being a {{Tomboy}} and, more gratingly as far as the O'Briens are concerned, for having Rene as a BFF. Rene herself gets in the present day when her mother is hospitalized and her brother comes to visit despite their long-standing estrangement. One of their relatives snidely comments "Well, Rene, it looks like you're the only one left. Even Elston's got a baby and a partner.", referring to the fact that she's only one in her family still unmarried and childless.
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* BigBrotherWorship: M.E. adored her older brother Johnny, as evidenced in the flashbacks.
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* BigBrotherWorship: M.E. adored her older brother Johnny, as evidenced in the flashbacks.flashbacks, while Rene felt the same way about hers.
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* DisappointingOlderSibling: Averted: when Davis learns that Kelly is pregnant, he immediately stands by her and even tells his parents to both pray about their anger at the situation and to forgive her.
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* DisappointingOlderSibling: Averted: when Davis learns that Kelly is pregnant, he immediately stands by her and even tells his parents to both pray about their anger at the situation and to forgive her. In Rene's case, while ''she'' doesn't shun her older brother Elston after he reveals that he's gay, her parents do.
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** The very conservative and racist Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien end the series finding they have a half-Vietnamese grandson (from Johnny) and a half-Black great-grandson (from Kelly).
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** The very conservative and racist Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien end the series finding they have a half-Vietnamese grandson (from Johnny) Johnny), a Vietnamese son-in-law (via marriage to Teresa), and a half-Black great-grandson (from Kelly).
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* ButNotTooBlack: When Rene's cousin Danny returns home after many years, M.E. is stunned at how light-skinned he is, even outright saying that he's white. The flashbacks in the episode establishes the tension between Rene's mother Sara and her light-skinned sister Kiki, to the point of each referring to the other as an "Aunt Jane" (the DistaffCounterpart to "Uncle Tom", itself a term for a black person who has "sold out" to white people). Rene and Sara are later stunned to learn that he's been passing for white for years.
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* ButNotTooBlack: ButNotTooBlack:
** When Rene's cousin Danny returns home after many years, M.E. is stunned at how light-skinned he is, even outright saying that he's white. The flashbacks in the episode establishes the tension between Rene's mother Sara and her light-skinned sister Kiki, to the point of each referring to the other as an "Aunt Jane" (the DistaffCounterpart to "Uncle Tom", itself a term for a black person who has "sold out" to white people). Rene and Sara are later stunned to learn that he's been passing for white for years.
** When Rene's cousin Danny returns home after many years, M.E. is stunned at how light-skinned he is, even outright saying that he's white. The flashbacks in the episode establishes the tension between Rene's mother Sara and her light-skinned sister Kiki, to the point of each referring to the other as an "Aunt Jane" (the DistaffCounterpart to "Uncle Tom", itself a term for a black person who has "sold out" to white people). Rene and Sara are later stunned to learn that he's been passing for white for years.
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** M.E. gently points out that Rene's a bit of a hypocrite about this, given that she straightens her hair.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Rene is quite rude to her biracial campaign manager when she runs for District Attorney, taking every suggestion the woman makes as an example of ButNotTooBlack. Not until the woman finally blasts her for her nasty attitude and declares that she will not apologize for being proud of her multicultural heritage does Rene realize how badly she's been acting.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Rene is quite rude to her biracial campaign manager when she runs for District Attorney, taking every suggestion the woman makes as an example of ButNotTooBlack.light-skinned privilege. Not until the woman finally blasts her for her nasty attitude and declares that she will not apologize for being proud of her multicultural heritage does Rene realize how badly she's been acting.
