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of work to do and this bench needs to go over there. >> but we just moved it over here. >> don't question my authority, thanks! we talk about race and culture in serious ways. that is important. discussing these things in a sitcom, you are not offensive. you are able to take in new ideas. >> the family was doing something that nobody had ever done. >> we are talking about having one of the biggest bigots in america and having a black man coming to his house. >> you see my daughter gloria standing over there and her husband mike? >> it was electrifying! >> i was tangling the whole t...

>> on the radio, amos and andy was one of the most popular sitcoms, but the performers who played them on the radio were white. the original pilot for the show was done in blackface and the sponsor said i don't know if this is going to go over well. so they cast it with some very funny black comedians. >> what do you think? >> this is the same house! >> at times it was hysterically funny, but the stereotypes left a negative taste in a lot of mouths. >> the central characters are all just different iterations of the menstrual archetypes from minstrel shows where white men wore putting on blackf...