Hear how Archie Bunker says the "N" Word!

~ All in the Family ~

Hear "N" Word Slur at the 07:00 Timer Mark.

It all seems like yesterday when I watched this "Lionel's Engagement" episode Carroll O"Conner & Sherman Hemsley(1974) since it's now forty years ago. The "All in the Family" series aired from 1971 to 1979. It was a cutting edge, nationally aired, TV sitcom show that opened up a racial dialog which depicted a bigoted, blue collar worker and his family handling racial relations and learning of tolerance in our American society. Both actors showed their racial bigotries as Carroll O'Conner and Sherman Hemsley performed within a rich content in scripts rife with social commentary and an abundant liberal political bias created by a talented Hollywood progressive left-wing activist, Producer Norman Lear.

"All in the Family" certainly drove a lot of Ku Klux Klan members and other racial bigots crazy too as I recall. After all, it was 1971 and still only seven years years earlier that a Democrat, President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and a hundred years after a Republican, President Abraham Lincoln's 1864 Emancipation Proclamation had freed the slaves. "The Times Are a Changin'..." as the hippie, folk singer Bob Dylan sang songs while strumming his guitar at civil rights rallies back in 1964. 

Time: 02:37

In 2014, it has been fifty years since the 1964 Civil Rights Law guaranteed them to all minorities and one hundred-fifty years after the 1864 Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves. How long does it take for an ethnic group to recognize that other emerging minorities now are competing against them in the schools and taking the jobs while they protest and remain on government welfare programs? Over the past fifty years, I personally recalled no significant demographic changes by Blacks due to government pandering of largess. The Black's future does not look too bright for the next fifty years either. Sad.

By 2043, according to the U.S. Census Bureau the White majority will be gone. With the influx of other nationalities, the balance in education is growing further lopsided as blacks have not demonstrated real initiative to learn which have marginalized them further, literally sweeping themselves into a corner to be forgotten. Further, society has simply lost its patience to continue supporting anyone whining about their past. The ever-growing Hispanic population has already passed blacks in numbers while gaining a much greater value as a national voter block majority to bolster Democrat party ambitions. By 2043, I wonder how the prejudice paradigm will shift and which group will be called the next "unmentionable letter" racial slur...

Time: 09:59

NOTE:  You can slide the radio button over to the right with your mouse cursor arrow to the "07.00 time mark" to click and hear the exact quote moment. The entire clip is really funny, though, and showcases Carroll O'Conner and Sherman Hemsley's comic dialogue.