Danielle Fishel addresses racism in the NBA, talks about ‘Boy Meets World’

Actress Danielle Fishel is known for playing Topanga Lawrence in the 1990’s sitcom Boy Meets World. However in a sit down interview, she discusses racism as it relates to the NBA. In lite of the Donald Sterling ban and recent selling of his former Los Angeles Clippers team that transpired, Fishel was pleased to know that he got caught. She hopes in the future more dirty laundry will be exposed of owners who feel the same way as Sterling does about racism.

“The thing that I do think is really great about it coming out is that I think there are so many more people. Owners of teams, just so many more people that feel the exact same way. Say the exact same things in the privacy of their own homes or with their friends and their family. Maybe not in privacy. It’s just been protected for some reason. Now that it’s been out, I hope that nobody is protected for it anymore. We need to have that discussion all the time,” said Fishel, reported by AllHipHop.

While being one of the main characters in Boy Meets World, in the later seasons her best friend in the show was named Angela. She was black and she dated another main character in the show named Shawn Hunter who was white. Fishel feels that Boy Meets World did a fantastic job of showing the interracial couple. She believes the show let the couple just is themselves and that a lone broke a barrier in television for interracial couples to be aired.
“What I loved and our executive producer and a lot of other people loved about Boy Meets World was that it was one of the first shows that had an interracial teenage couple, but it was never mentioned ‘oh, you’re going to date a Black girl?’ He fell in love with this girl, and they were together and it wasn’t talked about, because it wasn’t important to us. We loved her as a person,” said Fishel, confirmed by AllHipHop.
The sitcom star plans on being apart of a new show titled Girl Meets World. It is a spin-off show of her old show Boy Meets World. Her and Ben Savage will play Cory and Topanga as parents. The show is set to premiere June 27, according to New York Daily News.