Netflix's Lost In Space Features Surprising Recognition of Race

by Charles MudedeSister from another planet... Netflix
In Netflix's science fiction reboot of Lost In Space, the eldest child of the Robinson family, three kids (boy, girl, girl) and two parents (woman, man), is black. The other kids are not. They are white. And so are the parents. And all of the kids address the parents as "mom" and "dad." What's this about? Now recall, if you can, the episode of that '70s show, What's Happening, that features the Doobie Brothers. Recall the moment when the one