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== Controversy == Although ''Julia'' is remembered today as groundbreaking, during its original run the series was derided by many critics for being apolitical and unrealistic. In 1968, Diahann Carroll remarked: "At the moment we're presenting the white Negro. And he has very little Negroness."<ref>{{cite book |title=Critiquing The Sitcom |last=Morreale |first=Joanne |author2=Aniko Bodroghkozy |year=2003 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, New York |isbn=0-8156-2983-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/critiquingsitcom0000unse/page/138 138] |url=https://archive.org/details/critiquingsitcom0000unse/page/138 }}</ref> The ''[[Saturday Review (US magazine)|Saturday Review's]]'' Robert Lewis Shayon wrote that Julia's "plush, suburban setting" was "a far, far cry from the bitter realities of Negro life in the urban ghetto, the pit of America's explosion potential."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s |last=Farber |first=David R. |author2=Beth L. Bailey |year=2001 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=0-231-11372-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/columbiaguidetoa00farb_0/page/400 400] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiaguidetoa00farb_0/page/400 }}</ref> [[Gil Scott-Heron]]'s "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]" refers to Julia in the same breath as [[Bullwinkle J. Moose|Bullwinkle]], implying that the character was something of a cartoon. ''[[Ebony magazine|Ebony]]'' published a somewhat more supportive assessment of the program: "As a slice of Black America, ''Julia'' does not explode on the TV screen with the impact of a ghetto riot. It is not that kind of show. Since the networks have had a rash of shows dealing with the nation's racial problems, the light-hearted ''Julia'' provides welcome relief, if, indeed, relief is even acceptable in these troubled times."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1|magazine=Ebony|title='Julia': Television network introduces first black family series|date=November 1968|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|page=68|language=en}}</ref> The series also came under criticism from African-American viewers for its depiction of a fatherless Black family due to the father's death in American military service. Excluding a Black male lead, it was argued, "rendered the series safer" and "less likely to grapple with issues that might upset white viewers."<ref>{{cite book |title=Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer|last=Spigel|first=Lynn |author2=Denise Mann |year=1992 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |isbn=0-8166-2052-0 |page=161 }}</ref>
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