It seems as if Archie Bunkers are everywhere today — only, their prejudice has gone woke.
Bunker, the seasoned among us may know, was the famously amusing ’70s sitcom bigot in hit show All in the Family. Apropos to the story here, in one episode Archie was apoplectic because a black family was poised to move in to his all-white Queens neighborhood. His attitude was meant to be considered unenlightened, the epitome of risible racism born of ignorance. But much has changed in 50 years.
Now being upset about your neighborhood’s changing demographics is considered enlightened — if it’s the “wrong” kind of change. What kind would that be?
Well, leftists, who detest Archie Bunker-like bigotry, have a name for it: “whitewashing.”
Oh, it has also been called a “bleaching out.”
In another case of art imitating life, this casual-bigotry reality is reflected in a new television work….
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