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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 226263" data-attributes="member: 2208"><p>That part of the quote nails it for me. At it's core, Dallas was about family. And all the various conflicts that can arise in a family. Specifically with the maing conflict of J.R. and Bobby.  Sibling rivalry, two brothers fighting, a story that goes all the way back to Cain and Abel, or Moses and Ramses. Almost anyone who has siblings, male or female, can relate in some way to this basic conflict.  My brother and I were two young Black boys raised by our single mother in South Los Angeles, an environment as far as you can get from the rich Ewings on a Texas ranch, yet we both were hooked on the show back then.</p></blockquote><p></p>