Ravi
Diamond Member
Archie Bunker was a fictional sitcom character.
OK - pay careful attention now. Try to remain focused. Yes, Archie Bunker was a fictional sitcom character. But the character of Archie Bunker is ILLUSTRATIVE of a real life situation. You see, I am BORROWING on a fictional character to DEMONSTRATE a principle.
See how that works?
All in The Family was an attempt to show conservatives as totally ignorant and practically illerate. I never really realized it until I began to watch it after I was grown. I can't even watch it without wanting to throw something at the TV.
Don't tell me you liberals just love everybody, because you don't. There are a lot of people I don't care for of ALL races. I just leave them alone and they leave me alone. They probably don't like me either. I couldn't care less. I just get so sick of hearing how the blacks are still downtrodden, the reason they all aren't brain surgeons or billionaires is because they are forbidden by white people to achieve this. That is such bullshit - nobody stopped Obama from achieving his goals. Nobody gives a shit what race he is. He'd be an idiot if he was purple with pea-green polka dots. Fortunately there are zillions of black people who HAVE made something of themselves and don't believe the "you can't succeed because whites won't let you" crap. If every American would strive to be the best they can be, get educated and make something of themselves, it would be wonderful. I find it interesting that handicapped people contribute more to society that many able bodied people do.
One thing I do agree with on All in the Family is that the character of Mike, his son in law, IS a "meathead - dead from the neck up" - he hit the nail on the head with that one.
Seriously? I've recently watched reruns of All in the Family and discovered that nothing has changed in the last 40 years.