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To: The Sons of Liberty
Try finding "Amos and Andy".

Plenty of episodes on Youtube. As a kid I always got a chuckle out of watching the Kingfish get his just reward at the end. Watching them more recently I noticed the black actor Roy Glenn, who played Mr. Prentice in the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in several of the episodes. I think he played a well-spoken lawyer or maybe a judge and such appearances would indicate that the Kingfish was not representative of black people in general.

Amos n Andy strikes me as a black version of "All in the Family". Many truths revealed because of or in spite of common stereotypes.

29 posted on 08/14/2017 1:11:44 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell
Nope, NOTHING at all like "ALL IN THE FAMILY"!

Amos and Andy ( the T.V. version, NOT the radio one ) was a great comedy series and frankly, you could recast it with an all white cast and it would work too. The thing about that show, is the fact that blacks were judges, doctors, opera singers, CEOs of companies, company managers, college profs, etc. and it was just that Andy and the Kingfish got themselves into trouble...sort of like a black male version of Lucy & Ethel Mertz or Abbott & Costello.

There was NOTHING "racist" at all about that show; unlike MOVING ON UP and GOOD TIMES.

78 posted on 08/14/2017 1:50:49 PM PDT by nopardons
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