In the very, very first episode, Archie flat out says "No one is better than anyone else". So whatever anyone else may call him, he was not a supremacist. He just called things the way he saw them.
Contrast Archie with George Jefferson. Archie had an abusive, working-class father. He probably never went past grade 8, a lot of men of his generation didn't bother with high school, they went straight to work as teenagers.
Jefferson? Well, Weezie called him out on that "son of a sharecropper" stuff (and considering a sharecropper is basically a self-employed farming contractor, that's not really anything bad) - he was himself the son of a small businessman. So he was both successful, and a liar.
And I don't think I ever recall the N word coming out of Archie's mouth, but it sure as hell came out of George's (an episode of The Jeffersons, when an old navy buddy of George's attempted to assault/rape Weezie.)
And I don't think I ever recall the N word coming out of Archie's mouth, but it sure as hell came out of George's (an episode of The Jeffersons, when an old navy buddy of George's attempted to assault/rape Weezie.)
Niggers are the shitty blacks, within black folk. Learnt this from Chris Rock.
Storyline is basically this: George talks very highly of everyone in his old navy unit, especially this guy. Weezie hears this guy is coming and seems less than thrilled. Friend comes over, it's all ha ha ha until he's alone with Weezy, and then the action happens (it's subtle thanks to FCC rules of the time, but it's pretty strongly implied that yeah, he intends to flat-out rape her.) George walks in, and blows his stack. In the end, it's kind of a lesson in how sometimes, you can overlook how scummy someone actually is because reasons (this is actually how cults start, too, I think.)
Now, I would have seen this episode multiple times as a kid, but for some reason, the word jumped right out at me when I caught it in the first time in forever just last year.
In the very, very first episode, Archie flat out says "No one is better than anyone else". So whatever anyone else may call him, he was not a supremacist. He just called things the way he saw them.
Contrast Archie with George Jefferson. Archie had an abusive, working-class father. He probably never went past grade 8, a lot of men of his generation didn't bother with high school, they went straight to work as teenagers.
Jefferson? Well, Weezie called him out on that "son of a sharecropper" stuff (and considering a sharecropper is basically a self-employed farming contractor, that's not really anything bad) - he was himself the son of a small businessman. So he was both successful, and a liar.
And I don't think I ever recall the N word coming out of Archie's mouth, but it sure as hell came out of George's (an episode of The Jeffersons, when an old navy buddy of George's attempted to assault/rape Weezie.)
Niggers are the shitty blacks, within black folk. Learnt this from Chris Rock.
What it a racially written scene, or non white 'friend' in the scene
The guy was black.
Storyline is basically this: George talks very highly of everyone in his old navy unit, especially this guy. Weezie hears this guy is coming and seems less than thrilled. Friend comes over, it's all ha ha ha until he's alone with Weezy, and then the action happens (it's subtle thanks to FCC rules of the time, but it's pretty strongly implied that yeah, he intends to flat-out rape her.) George walks in, and blows his stack. In the end, it's kind of a lesson in how sometimes, you can overlook how scummy someone actually is because reasons (this is actually how cults start, too, I think.)
Now, I would have seen this episode multiple times as a kid, but for some reason, the word jumped right out at me when I caught it in the first time in forever just last year.