I heart THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR: Episode Guide & Quote

"The Ethnic Tip"

Episode Number: 17

Season Num: 1

First Aired: Monday January 14, 1991

Will proposes a black history class be instituted at Bel-Air Academy, and gets a surprise when Aunt Viv arrives to teach it. Will learns quite a lesson from Aunt Viv and also learns one from Uncle Phill. Will thinks he knows it all but watch to see what all he doesn't know.

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Will: I read the autobiography of Malcolm X.

Vivian: And that makes you a serious black history student?

Will: It's a very important book.

Vivian: Will, you can read the books, you can wear the T-shirts, you can put up the posters and you can shout the slogans, but unless you know all the facts, you are just trivializing the entire struggle.