malcolm venable: you saw a black man who was like, standing up to white people. george: who are you calling crazy, honky? peter casey: the shows had depth to them. and they tackled racial issues. instructor: very good, very good ladies. who s next? come on, now, who s next? we re all friends here. hereman: well, you may all be friends, but we don t touch anything that s been kissed by a nigger. helen: i hope you got on your best suit! jay moriarty: the flashback episode of what jeffersons were doing the day martin luther king was shot, it ends with martin luther king s speech. martin luther king: we ve got some difficulties ahead, but i want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the promised land. tim reid: but the fly in the ointment was that they were all written primarily by white executives who had a very myopic view of black america. norman lear: i feel qualified to do that as a human being who shared some of the same concerns.
and we do not live in the projects in chicago. dy-no-mite! you want to worry your head about nothing, go on and do it. but we got $32 in the shoebox, and i got another $6 right here in my pocket. you worked all night, and all they paid you was $6? there were a lot of folks who were not happy with the show. the black panthers were very upset. lear: when huey newton came to see me, the big complaint was, why can t we see a black man that s doing better than that? the jeffersons started as neighbors of archie bunker. don t call me honky! oh! why you so sensitive all of a sudden? how would you like it if i called you nigger ? [ gasps ] he called me nigger. that s no worse than honky. you re right. nothing s worse than honky except being married to one. norman lear set the stage for other shows in the 70s that just brought gravitas to television. what are you staring at? i was just thinking,
i said he did a dress rehearsal at the police riot against dave dinkins. - rudy went down there, and i went with him. and the idea was to show support for the cops. he didn t know he was gonna attend a racist rally. [chatter, crowd commotion] - we were standing there looking out through the bars. jimmy breslin got roughed up. he was the columnist. una clark was a city councilman. some people in this mob tried to block her from walking to city hall and they said, who are you? and she said, i m a city council woman, and they said, this nigger says she s a city council woman. - do you believe that n is a council member? so i just told them, i said, i m a jamaican, and there are no ns where i come from. - they climbed the various steps of government and felt comfortable to call the mayor of the city a nigger. it s outrageous. if david duke had a police department, it would look and sound like this group of people. - there was a real sense of mob rule. but on the inside, there w
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- the demonstration turned ugly. racial slurs were uttered. - but some of them out there yesterday who were calling out nigger, for instance - and they were holding up signs about dinkins is a washroom attendant. - why would the people of our communities have confidence that they have the capacity to handle a tense situation? - so, seething with anger, they overtook the steps of city hall. [shouting and cheering] - eventually turned into a major disturbance. - knock them all down! - with a lot of disorderly behavior. - literally thousands of police. when you saw that crowd, it was absolutely breathtaking. and they were violent. and their main speaker was rudy giuliani. - thank you. - he got up and led them in the most provocative chants. when i saw rudy be identified with january 6th,