with things sometimes and they would keep it. - florence, your cooking tastes like dog food. (audience laughs) - that s cause i m cooking for a chihuahua. (audience laughs) (upbeat music) he and i really had a chemistry together. - one of the unique things about the jeffersons is that it featured the first primetime interracial couple, the willises. - george, if we have a problem, why can t we just talk it through like tom and helen? they don t fight. - they don t fight cause they scared to fight. - what s that supposed to mean? - you know damn well what it means. if you two ever really started going at one another, inside of five minutes, he d be calling you - don t say it! - nigga. - he said it! - coming out of the 1960s loving case, which made interracial marriages legal in the united states, you had this representation of what america could look like, of what america could be. (audience laughs and applauds) - i beg your pardon. i ll come back later. - the jeffersons was reall
since he was 14 years old. booker: thanks to y all. we don t have a real menu. i d be glad to tell you what we re gonna serve tonight. anthony: in 1965, nbc news came to town, making a documentary on race relations. booker s entertaining recitation of the menu at lusco s was famous around town, so they asked him to do his usual routine for the camera. booker: we have fresh shrimp cocktail, lusco s shrimp, fresh oysters on a half shell, baked oysters, oyster rockefeller, oyster almadine. anthony: but at the end of his usual litany is where he dropped the truth bomb that nobody was ready for, right here. booker: now as with my customers, i say my customers, be respecting of me. some people nice, some is not. some call me booker, some call me john, some call me jim. some call me nigga. oh that hurts, but you have to smile. if you don t, what s wrong with you? the meaner the man be, the more you smile. although you crying on the inside. i m not gonna tip that nigga. he don t l
What’s your relationship with the word “ni@@a”? Do you use it regularly, every now and then, or not at all. Have you ever been aware of how often you use it? Share your thoughts in the comments.
What’s your relationship with the word “ni@@a”? Do you use it regularly, every now and then, or not at all. Have you ever been aware of how often you use it? Share your thoughts in the comments.