Remember the big Bart Simpson scare in the early nineties? Everyone was freaking out because The Simpsons was beating The Cosby Show in the ratings. I remember a picture of Bill Cosby next to Bart Simpson with boxing gloves was on a bunch of tabloids in the grocery store. America had chosen this dysfunctional family over the clean family values of the Huxtables. They wanted an underachiever (and proud of it, man!) instead of a successful Black household with “no excuses” parenting of Claire and Cliff and his precocious children who all behaved civilly. Conservatives George Bush, Pat Buchanan, and Jerry Falwell used The Simpsons as a straw man for…