Famous family sitcom about white supremacist "Archie Bunker" ..

[Axolotl]

I'm an Indian darker than half you mfers. And?

And guess what, before that I would stay with my neighbors who were black, from the straight up south. I went to church with them and all that, got my ass beat for putting my feet on her table and the whole nine. I consider them fam too. You dudes need to stop letting race cloud your vision so much. There are good and bad people in all walks of life.

go make me some curry u bytch made fakkit

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Please don’t tell people who have been destroyed by a race how to react or effect our visions I don’t care where u were raised or what u watched

You think white people were the only ones watching this show? The Jeffersons was a spin off this shyt. There's a place where your comment would apply but it doesn't here. When you try too hard you cheapen the message you think you are conveying. The whole premise of the show was to show how ridiculous Archies bigotry was given the bigger picture. Miss me with the preachy bullshyt.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

go make me some curry u bytch made fakkit

You couldn't handle my curry, your taste buds ain't on that level yet, the back of your kneecaps would be sweating.

 

[Axolotl]

show was classic & handled racism better than any other program imo. one of the famous episodes had sammy davis who was a big fan & requested to be on the show. another had archie trapped in an elevator w/ an uppity conservative black dude & they bonded over making fun of puerto ricans. there were also episodes that not only attacked archie's racism but his son in law's white liberal bs. not to mention, archie was a known idiot on the show, mispronouncing words & phrases, and when he would rant about gun control or whatever, it was all over the top. i doubt anyone became more racist from watching it...it was also one of the first shows to feature middle eastern people & they had a puerto rican nurse living w/ them in later episodes. actually a very liberal show...if it wasn't for aitf, shows like in living color couldn't exist (another old show you could pick apart if you were uptight)

"i roll blunts w/ archie bunker"- redman

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

All in The Family was flames. Ya'll bugging hard.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Hell yeah fam. shyt was dope.

 

[get these nets]

Huey had to press Norman

never heard this before...props to you and to the late HPN

I have read that the mother on Good Times refused to do the show unless they added a father character. Originally she was supposed to be a single mom. Respect to the late Esthere Rolle. She said she's responsible for the first Black father/husband in American tv history .

 

[Ol’Otis]

never heard this before...props to you and to the late HPN

I have read that the mother on Good Times refused to do the show unless they added a father character. Originally she was supposed to be a single mom. Respect to the late Esthere Rolle. She said she's responsible for the first Black father/husband in American tv history .

yeah Esther Rolle was thorough

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

You think white people were the only ones watching this show? The Jeffersons was a spin off this shyt. There's a place where your comment would apply but it doesn't here. When you try too hard you cheapen the message you think you are conveying. The whole premise of the show was to show how ridiculous Archies bigotry was given the bigger picture. Miss me with the preachy bullshyt.

This ain’t gon end well for u

U keep talking about a show while I’m telling u to watch what u say about how black people react to having our minds bodies and souls destroyed by devils

U ain’t apart of this life therefore ur opinion about me trying hard is invalid at best

Understanding racism is a dangerous blanket of evil that permeates through all aspects of important life worldwide is not “preachy bullshyt”

I’m being very nice in my responses to you... I would be careful if u respond to choose your words wisely

 

[RhodyRum]

never heard this before...props to you and to the late HPN

I have read that the mother on Good Times refused to do the show unless they added a father character. Originally she was supposed to be a single mom. Respect to the late Esthere Rolle. She said she's responsible for the first Black father/husband in American tv history .

She also advocated to end the show once it became apparent that JJ's Step-N-Fetchit act was becoming too pronounced on the show.

I fully understand we all gotta eat, but it would have been nice if someone on the set of Family Matters had the gravitas of an Esther Rolle to at least raise a red flag to the development of Super Sambo Urkel.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Dope show. I used to watch the reruns with my mother. It really gave me and understanding of what a lot of white peole think about us at an early age. The show was based on Archie but he was really the antagonist. He hated that George Jefferson lived next to him but then George moved on up to the east side leaving his white neighbor in the dust

 

[Fani Willis fan]

Is all All in the family on netflix ?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

You think white people were the only ones watching this show? The Jeffersons was a spin off this shyt. There's a place where your comment would apply but it doesn't here. When you try too hard you cheapen the message you think you are conveying. The whole premise of the show was to show how ridiculous Archies bigotry was given the bigger picture. Miss me with the preachy bullshyt.

Pretty much.... but this the internet.... he doesn’t even have a pertinent reason to post this in regards to race relations in the states....

 

[richaveli83]

This show is a classic...loved it growing up and still love it today.

The show wasn't about "white supremacy" or an endorsement of it; it was really the opposite.

Archie was just a representation of the America that "once was" pre-1960s ie soft bigotry, the "joe lunch pail", factory worker, of the pro American generation who clashed with his young neo liberal, over educated "burn the flag" new school son in law and other issues that were changing America at the time (i.e. the free love movement, feminism, a change in attitude towards race etc etc).

It was a characterization of a changing of the guard between the generations of the time.

Definitely one of the most telling and provocative shows without a doubt. Even the chair that he sat in in the show is displayed in the Smithsonian

But Playing a YouTube clip is really robbing yourself of the whole story. You have to watch a few episodes in full length to get what I'm saying. Try looking at the first few seasons.

My favorite episode is the one where the two black burglers break into his house (one of the burglars is played by Lamont from Sanford n Son). Shyt still has me til this day...but I know the new millennial generation is hyper sensitive with too short of an attention span to get it

This. Never really watched the show much but that was the whole point of the show.

 

[get these nets]

She also advocated to end the show once it became apparent that JJ's Step-N-Fetchit act was becoming to pronounced on the show.

I fully understand we all gotta eat, but it would have been nice if someone on the set of Family Matters had the gravitas of an Esther Rolle to raise a red flag to Super Sambo Urkel.

I have mixed feelings about that story...and (Urkel is a Sambo?......how?)

Be objective and compare JJ's character with Will Smith's character on Fresh Prince...mid series...
Smith's character doesn't stand out as much because he's in an affluent setting. but they aren't much different.


And much like the professional rivalries that developed on FP, I think John Amos and Esthere Rolle didn't like being upstaged by the novice actor.......Jimmie Walker.

She did have some valid criticisms of his character though.