Viewers were stunned last week during the season premiere of Shonda Rhimes' (creator of Gray's Anatomy and Private Practice) hit political drama, Scandal, during its star Kerry Washington's highly charged and emotionally gutting scene with her TV father (played by the uber-talented Joe Morton).
In this scene Morton put something out there that, while it may be common knowledge among African American and other minority families, it's mostly unknown to many in the majority culture. Why do I say this? Because of the audiences responses. Many were shocked, not in a bad way, but more in a "wow" type of way. On the other hand, many were pleasantly surprised and heartened.
Here's the scene in question: