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** Subverted when the principal rips it up.
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** There was no notable population of Sub-Saharan Africans in the Middle East in the 1st century BC. Nor were there even many North Africans (who are an entirely separate and distinct group of people), which is likely what Huey was referring to.
** The Levant at the time of Jesus's birth was not populated by Arabs. They would not arrive in notable numbers until the Muslim conquests. The primary inhabitants of 1st century BC Judea were [[CaptainObvious Jews]].
** North Africans, the only type of Africans who you ''may'' have found in the 1st century BC Levant, have never been considered black in the United States. To this day they're legally considered white.
** The genetic profile of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews#Y-DNA_of_Roman_Jews Jews during the Roman period]] has been documented as far back as 2000. It has been proven that Jews during the Roman period were very similar, racially, to Jews now. Going back even further, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_people#Genetics Canaanites]] from the ''Bronze Age'' display more than 95% genetic similarity with Lebanese people (another Semitic Levantine group related to Jews). In other words, if Jesus looked like the typical inhabitant of the Levant at the time (which he did, since in the Bible the authorities couldn't pick him out of a crowd), he was a Caucasian with fair to olive skin- and would almost certainly be someone that Huey would consider "white."
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* BittersweetEnding: Kind of all over the place; Huey’s play is aired the way he envisioned it, but no one apart from the school principal, his secretaries along with Grandad, Riley and Jazmine bother to attend (all the parents were mad that their kids weren’t in the play). Huey is okay with this because he “hates looking at his old work.” Additionally, Mr. Uberwitz, one of the nicest side characters in the show, is fired from his teaching position; Huey previously warned him that him being in charge will lead to the teacher fired as an "irresponsible white person". Thankfully, he manages to become a professor of African American Studies at the University of Maryland and it appears that his students like him and his teaching style. Jazmine has her faith in Santa restored by Ruckus of all people. However, Riley’s hatred of Santa is still very much present as he attacks Ruckus at the end of the episode (as Ruckus told Jazmine that he worked for Santa) with a warning for him to tell Santa that he’ll be after him again.

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* BittersweetEnding: Kind of all over the place; Huey’s play is aired the way he envisioned it, but no one apart from the school principal, his secretaries along with Grandad, Riley and Jazmine bother to attend (all the parents were mad that their kids weren’t in the play while Grandad and Riley slept through the whole play). Huey is okay with this because he “hates looking at his old work.” Additionally, Mr. Uberwitz, one of the nicest side characters in the show, is fired from his teaching position; Huey previously warned him that him being in charge will lead to the teacher fired as an "irresponsible white person". Thankfully, he manages to become a professor of African American Studies at the University of Maryland and it appears that his students like him and his teaching style. Jazmine has her faith in Santa restored by Ruckus of all people. However, Riley’s hatred of Santa is still very much present as he attacks Ruckus at the end of the episode (as Ruckus told Jazmine that he worked for Santa) with a warning for him to tell Santa that he’ll be after him again.
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* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: Mr. Uberwitz wanted to be friends with Huey and wanted him to direct a play. He had no idea how apathy Huey is.

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* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Mr. Uberwitz wanted to be friends with Huey and wanted him to direct a play. He had no idea how apathy apathetic to the idea Huey is.was.
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* RunningGag: When Mr. Uberwitz insists on giving Huey complete control of producing a Christmas play in his own image, Huey demands the promise is made in writing before they start. Later, when Uberwitz protested against Huey "firing" all of the children and hiring professional actors for the play, Huey shows the contract they made.
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* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: Mr. Uberwitz

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* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: Mr. UberwitzUberwitz wanted to be friends with Huey and wanted him to direct a play. He had no idea how apathy Huey is.

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* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: Mr. Uberwitz



* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Huey's teacher Mr. Uberwitz is "culturally sensitive" and gives a lecture on Kwanzaa to his bored students, much to their apathy.

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* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Huey's teacher Mr. Uberwitz is "culturally sensitive" and gives a lecture on Kwanzaa to his bored students, much to their apathy. Also the reason why Mr. Uberwitz wanted Huey to direct the play because he hopes to see an African-American perspective of the holiday.
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* OnlyOneFindsItFun: Jazmine is the only Hoover Elementary student who enjoys Huey's play. Riley falls asleep, the other kids refuse to see it because he fired them and Huey himself says he "hates his early work."


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* PrimaDonnaDirector: Huey is put in charge of directing an elementary school Christmas pageant but he intends to make it a high-budget, dramatic masterpiece starring A-List black actors, co-produced by Quincy Jones. [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome He apparently succeeds,]] at the cost of firing all his classmates (causing their parents to boycott the play), and the teacher who put him in charge losing his job (as promised). One can only guess how much it set the school back financially.


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* SkewedPriorities: In spite of the all the ridiculously expensive things Huey asked for in his play (Mr. Uberwitz' primary concern) the principal's only reason for putting his foot down was because he didn't want Jesus to be black.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Huey's teacher Mr. Uberwitz is "culturally sensitive" and gives a lecture on Kwanzaa to his bored students, much to their apathy.

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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: Huey's teacher Mr. Uberwitz is "culturally sensitive" and gives a lecture on Kwanzaa to his bored students, much to their apathy.

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