Archie Bunker meets Sammy Davis Jr. -OR-

[SeattleGirl]

How some white people even today delude themselves when it comes to racial bias.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UBgkFHm8o&feature=related

Folks, while I think -- no, I know -- it's not as blatant(in general) as it used to be, racism is unfortunately still alive and well in the You Ess of America.

And I love this clip of Archie and Sammy, because it shows how it exists (even today), and it shows how people try to pretend it doesn't.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

1. K&R. nt

[bleever]

2. Classic!

How things have changed, and yet how they're the same.

[JoFerret]

3. Two republicans

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[SeattleGirl]

4. Huh?

:shrug:

[baldguy]

6. Archie Bunker & Sammy Davis Jr

Two Republicans

[SeattleGirl]

7. Check this out:

Sammy Davis Jr.'s political beliefs (from Wikipedia):

Political beliefs

Although Davis had been a voting Democrat, he had felt a distinct lack of respect from the John F. Kennedy White House. He had been removed from the bill of the inaugural party hosted by Sinatra for the new President because of Davis's recent interracial marriage. Davis had married Swedish actress May Britt (pronounced "My Brit") on November 13, 1960. <10> In the early 1970s, Davis famously supported Republican President Richard M. Nixon (and gave the startled President a warm hug on live TV). The incident was very controversial, and Davis was given a hostile reception by his peers, despite the intervention of Jesse Jackson. Previously he had won over their respect with his performance as Joe Washington Jr. in Golden Boy and his participation in the Civil Rights Movement. Unlike Frank Sinatra, Davis became a Democrat again after Nixon's resignation.

Couldn't find a "Political beliefs" section under Carroll O'Connor's Wikipedia listing, but I did find this quote:

Carroll on his own family: "I never heard Archie's kind of talk in my own family. My father was a lawyer and was in partnership with two Jews, who with their families were close to us. There were black families in our circle of friends. My father disliked talk like Archie's -- he called it lowbrow."

[JoFerret]

8. Davis was "real" and supported Nixon

Bunker was a character on TV ditto.

[SeattleGirl]

10. I know that.

I just didn't get the point of what that poster said.

Just dropping a line into a thread without much explanation is rude, IMHO. (But then, I guess there are a lot of people on this board who do that.)

[JoFerret]

11. Behave rudely you mean?

...there sure are.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Yeah, that's what I meant.

[WillyT]

5. That's A Classic !!! - K & R !!!

:shrug:

[Barack_America]

9. That was brilliant!

Thanks for posting it!

[WillyT]

13. Kick !!!

:kick: