tHe last time I saw Malcolm-Jamal Warner spending a bitter and joyful night in Atlanta. It was after a show at Buteco that Warner took over Brazilian United on the first Thursday of each month on Brazil’s east side. He would magically turn it into that classic black TV hotspot, which he himself might walk around the day. (Think about it Natalie’sa secret gathering venue in New York. Warner will always be reinterpreting Funk and R&B Jams on electric bass with the band, Biological inappropriate. This mild April night became the last cheer when two friends announced they were leaving Atlanta forever. I don’t know the end yet.
Just when the night seemed to be no longer stretching, the band and I grabbed Warner as we packed up during the closing ceremony. I asked his daughter (the recent show passed her bedtime, and I remembered that he was reached out to Buteco), and suddenly – like Warner, always so considerate and intentional in his interactions – we walked very deep. We joke about it as the big dad, and the adventures and adversity of raising black kids in this era. He is very proud of the work his wife and daughter did at homeschool, studying ancient Egypt and other black history. He was particularly excited about his upcoming family trip to Costa Rica because it meant he could take the classroom to the beach. After 20 minutes of catching up, we cheated and separated the way. I have no reason to expect that I will never see him again.
I scrolled on Twitter when I saw the Warner name trend and I’ve been numbing since I learned he died A drowning accident on a family trip in Costa Ricawhile swimming with his daughter. Just like the sudden deaths of Chadwick Boseman and Kobe Bryant, Warner’s death was a deep shock that absolutely made no sense to me. It was a teenager who became a household name and somehow didn’t become another miserable child star who twisted the industry over fifty years, making TV, movies, music and poetry without negative headlines or rumors, and they saw him when I saw him last night, like a whole world, like a everyone, figured out all people and kept peace with the final answer. To end everything, because he is exactly where he wants to be life, just feel incredible.
Warner is not an ordinary celebrity tragedy. It was the beginning of the end of an era when the TV stars were still very kind to us. For those who grew up watching the Cosby Show, this was my initial Thursday night routine, and he was more than just a fictional relative. As Theo Huxtable, who overcame the respectful (if naughty) teenager of dyslexia on his way to psychology at NYU, helping kids like him at the community center, he demonstrated a series of black masculinity that was unique at the time, still a weird sight, and still on screen today. It was just that his name flashed during the opening ceremony, like seeing a black fist on the screen. How can Jill Scott Heron say our men are It’s hereRe-in-Malcolm X and Mumia Abu-jamal in Fear and Kent mode Golden Time? Please note that not only on Cosby show, but on residents and 9-1-1.
Warner’s losses hit like death in his family, and no doubt his family was huge. Tribute – From Beyoncé (from Beyoncé (she remembers Warner on the front page of the official website) to Kate Hudson (recalling the April Fools’ Day time she worked with Warner) to Tyrese Gibson Facebook Poetry) – Not only talk about his long and diverse career in the industry (NPR Small Table, directing Whitney Houston’s music videos and new versions of music video credits), but also his tremendous kindness, basic decency and unwavering professionalism.
This sense of character, on-screen and on-screen fixation, really shines when Bill Cosby was conquered by accusations of sexual assault in the #MeToo era. Although fellow industry peers rushed to Cosby and were away from Cosby, Warner found a way to take a line between condemning Cosby’s actions and gratitude to his mentor and TV dad, without anyone really questioning his loyalty. Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt reacts to Warner’s death Murdering Cosby’s flesh and blood son in 1997Ennis – Warner’s close friend. “When we talk about why good people were taken away from us,” Warner reflected Recent podcast interviews With the media personality, Melyssa Ford, “I go: ‘Maybe they are rewarded or something.’”
It’s not just his physical work – again, it’s simply shocking – Malcolm should be remembered In fact Live up to the lofty ideals of Cosby’s program. His Thursday Butko night was also special, a natural landing point for other black Hollywood icons that happened to pass through town. But the real privilege doesn’t watch Danny Glover or another star fall under respect. It shares some good, clean fun with a room full of people-the number of black people among them doesn’t matter, they take responsibility for father, spouse and good citizenship, in large part because of the guys on bass, jammin’.
That’s what Warner I’ll remember: Sage, who raises people with bright smiles, deep voices and bottomless warmth. I will mourn him, though not yet his family, friends, former actors and band members, who know him better. Let’s say: Thursday’s Butko Night was gone with him, but when you know what this might mean for him, his absence was his own reward, which comforted him.

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