It’s been a long time (decades) since I watched any television beyond major disaster coverage. But, if I recall, the Jefferson money came from a string of drycleaning establishments or something similar. It was, in its way, a salute to the American Dream and American Way. And it clearly poked fun at both white and black racism.
I was in my teens or early 20’s when that show was on and didn’t watch tv very often back then. I have seen a few minutes of it in re-runs. I have to say, I don’t care for it.
>>>But, if I recall, the Jefferson money came from a string of drycleaning establishments or something similar. It was, in its way, a salute to the American Dream and American Way. And it clearly poked fun at both white and black racism.<<<
True - Jefferson got his money from seven dry cleaning businesses. There was an interracial couple next door. The show WAS a salute to traditional American values - in fact, it was a salute to what most of us thought would be the future of the African-American community after the diminishment of racism and the establishment of civil rights. And I’ll bet it’s no coincidence that the main character is named Jefferson, either.
The country would have been a much better place if the ideals in the Jeffersons would have been the prevailing meme in our country. As a young man I thought that was the way we were going - black-owned businesses, growing wealth, inclusion into the American dream, working together in freedom and liberty. Too bad it was undermined by the left and the race-baiters. And now we’re here.
The apartment shown in the show’s opening was right across the street from where my uncle lived on the upper east side, too.
So you are glued to the screen 24/7 these days?