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Archie Bunker actually helped race relations: How "All in the Family" led to "Key and Peele"
This would have been impossible 50 years ago. In fact, it was "All in the Family," the sitcom with Archie Bunker, that paved the way for popular racial satire on TV. In 1971,"All in the Family ...
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Archie Bunker couldn’t exist today. That’s why we need him more than ever
The right, they believe, would side with Archie while proclaiming that the ... But if the show were made today, it’s easy to imagine Bunker’s laundry list of resentments — The Great ...
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‘All in the Family’: 1972 Archie Bunker Editorial on Gun Control Is More Relevant Than Ever (Video)
Way back in 1972, Normal Lear’s patriarchal masterpiece Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) provided a televised editorial rebuttal for the ages. Speaking on behalf of group Guns For Everybody ...
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How a Foulmouthed Bigot Named Archie Bunker Charmed—and Changed—America
The show then opens with Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton, as their characters Archie and Edith Bunker, sitting side-by-side at a doily-draped spinet and singing the show’s theme song ...
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Letters to the Editor: If we brought back Archie Bunker, would conservatives get the joke?
To the editor: Columnist Lorraine Ali says we could use a character like Archie Bunker on TV today to spark conversations on racism and other contentious topics. This would be pointless.