Like Losing Family: 10 TV Parents Who Made An Impact And Passed Away In Real Life
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Deron Dalton
Bernie McCullough (Bernie Mac)
Mac might have had his own tough-love, strict parenting techniques on his show, “The Bernie Mac Show,” and we loved him for them because we weren’t that unfamiliar with it ourselves. But if everything his character, loosely based on his own life, exemplified what it really means to be a black family — an extended black family and kinship, that is. Black folk and extended black families heavily believe in taking care of each other, and Mac definitely took in and cared for his sister’s children. Mac passed away in 2008 from sarcoidosis complicated by pneumonia.
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