beni hanna wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
"Archie" & Mike Royko taught me virtually every racial/ethnic slur I know.
I found this quote and could not help thinking of how Royko viewed Richard J. Daley...Mayor. Archie Bunker in New York was eerily similar to Richard J. in Bridgeport.
Archie Bunker: That ain't the American Way, buddy. No, siree. Listen here, professor. You're the one who need an American History lesson. You don't know nothin' about Lady Liberty standin' there in the harbor, with her torch on high screamin' out to all the nations in the world: "Send me your poor, your deadbeats, your filthy." And all the nations send 'em in here, they come swarming in like ants. Your Spanish P.R.'s from the Caribboin, your Japs, your Chinamen, your Krauts and your Hebes and your English fags. All of 'em come in here and they're all free to live in their own separate sections where they feel safe. And they'll bust your head if you go in there. *That's* what makes America great, buddy.
[exits Stivic house]
Mike Stivic: [to Gloria] I think we just heard Archie Bunker's Bicentennial Minute.
Royko had a column where he described the city. Starting around Taylor St. "one" had to look out for the Wops, the Bohunks(still my favorite), then the Chinks, then the Wops, the N@ggers("because who knew WHAT they would do
), then the Micks then the Pollacks, then to safety with people who were "just like me"
Of course Royko on Haggis, chitlins' or czarina...equally riveting.
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