Peanuts' AppleTV special makes amends and focuses on black character
A new Peanuts special on Apple TV specifically highlighted Franklin, the first black character in the franchise. The series has also attempted to make amends for the infamous 1973 Thanksgiving scene.
Umm… he was black. That was his gimmick. Don’t overthink this - Schulz didn’t put Franklin in like a “everyday kid” to see that black people were just like white people. Schulz put him in as a response to MLKs assassination in 1968 and leftists prodding him that his strip was all white and needed diversity and then didn’t do ANYTHING with the character like a typical leftist. Snoops cousin Spike has more personality!