As long as we're searching youtube and discussing race, Jews and other various and sundry - I found this clip from a show put on by a liberal Jewish fellow some 40 or more years ago discussing race.
After watching this you might want to watch the full 8:30 video of Archie Bunker at Lionel's engagement party - it comes up as a selection when the first one is finished.
Or not.
Watching these it occurred to me that we used to be able to laugh at ourselves. We don't do that anymore.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
,...seemed like it was on the air for my entire childhood.
Nobody took it too seriously,...it was just kind of free range country folks entertainment.
My grandparents lived about 3/4ths of a mile from us as the crow flies.
I used to cut through the soybean field,..cross the creek (when it wasn't running) and come up on the back of the 3 acres that they lived on.
Back when I was 9-13 years old or so, I more of less lived between there and my house.
I was always welcome, of course. I'd just cross the field and the creek and show up when I felt like spending the night with them
They always had ice cream,..and they had a color TV.
We'd watch Hee Haw,....they'd be sitting in their chairs and I'd be sitting cross legged on the floor eating vanilla ice cream from a coffee mug.
It's a damn shame that kids don't know enough to fully appreciate the perfection of watching Hee Haw with their grandparents on a hot summer evening while eating ice cream.
,...seemed like it was on the air for my entire childhood.
Nobody took it too seriously,...it was just kind of free range country folks entertainment.
My grandparents lived about 3/4ths of a mile from us as the crow flies.
I used to cut through the soybean field,..cross the creek (when it wasn't running) and come up on the back of the 3 acres that they lived on.
Back when I was 9-13 years old or so, I more of less lived between there and my house.
I was always welcome, of course. I'd just cross the field and the creek and show up when I felt like spending the night with them
They always had ice cream,..and they had a color TV.
We'd watch Hee Haw,....they'd be sitting in their chairs and I'd be sitting cross legged in the floor eating vanilla ice cream from a coffee mug.
It's a damn shame that kids don't know enough to fully appreciate the perfection of watching Hee Haw with their grandparents on a hot summer evening while eating ice cream.
Hee Haw was funny because it was corny. Anyone who though it was supposed to be something else must have been a bit off. That was a fine bit of entertainment. The Canadians have done even better with the equally corny and funny Red/Green Show. I like that kind of humor much better than most of the crappy sitcoms that are supposed to be entertainment.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
There might be a dark branch of the Trewolla family tree that sprouted in MS.
From the 1900 US Federal Census - Tallahatchie, MS
Mack Trewalla bn. abt 1876 - Black Jame Trewalla bn. abt 1873 - Black Armstrong Trewalla bn. abt 1893 - Black Kate Trewalla bn. abt 1895 - Black Mose Trewalla bn. abt 1897 - Black William Trewalla bn. abt 1898 - Black Ben Trewalla bn. abt 1900 - Black
