Offensive to whom?......white liberals?? ......
Anyone who doesn't enjoy a minstrel show
So a successful Negro who is married and happy with a son in college is a minstrel show? Did you need another shovel so you can dig with both hands?
No...his "antics" we're worthy of a minstrel show
What "antic" did he pull that pissed you off?
George Jefferson was supposed to be the black Archie Bunker. See? blacks can be as bigoted as whites
But Archie Bunker was allowed to develop. You learned why he felt the way he does, how he was brought up, that basically he was a decent man
George Jefferson would have grown up in 1930s Jim Crow America. We could have learned what that was like, the indignities he faced that made him what he is
Instead, we got a cartoon character of limited depth