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Your reading comprehension is non-functional. You obviously did not read my second sentence. I allowed for Andy having many kids (as quite a number of Southern families did) and not one friend being a minority as an example of racism. Are you a bot? Mayberry had been mentioned as a town that had a couple thousand people and to take the Taylor's household of three as an example of racism is ridiculous. Three percent of anything is not a large enough sample size to draw a conclusion. Again, I would ask for examples actually provided on the show that would in turn demonstrate what is shown as racist. The question is about the show itself and not the South in general. Can you comprehend that? I have my doubts.
You obviously missed my point in my prior post. Having minority characters often opens a Pandora's box. On a show that revolves around a sheriff and his deputy and the community jail would you accept a minority character being jailed for an offense? The show referenced that some of the offenders wound up in state prison. Some were fined for acts such as speeding with the Fun Girls. Would your take be that the offender got what they deserved or would you feel that the white sheriff and his deputy had their collective thumbs on the scales of justice against the offender?
You might have a better point if Andy were in charge of the local factory or superintendent of schools were he could expect to cross paths with hundreds of people with none being minorities. Or if he had a dozen kids and never had a minority friend that came to the Taylor house or dated a Taylor kid.
For the most part you are reading into things that do not exist. The only evidence I would accept in terms of segregation are signs written or otherwise that say so. Mayberry had maybe 2,000 people and maybe 50 people were portrayed in that town. This means we do not know what the makeup and character was for 98 percent of the town. I never saw any signs on the show that said "whites only" or "colored people not allowed." What Griffith said decades after the fact or was pressured to say really had no bearing on it. I never heard Floyd the Barber or Wally the filling station owner say anything derogatory towards minorities on the show. Also, shows back then were budgeted cheap when it came to actors. There was never going to be a huge cast to reflect every person in a small town. A fair number of episodes only had Aunt Bea, Andy, and Opie in them. As said elsewhere in this forum minorities were probably fortunate not to be protrayed as a fair number of the characters shown would be on the other side of the law. After all Andy was the Sheriff and Barney a deputy so law enforcement would be the subject of a fair number of episodes. The Mayberry jail did have occupants in a fair number of episodes. Would it be fair to have all the law breakers white and nothing else? I think it is ridiculous to look for racism in a show that was about one small family and not much else. Their reach in the community was quite limited as it often happens in real life. Floyd and Goober were never invited to dinner once at the Taylors! Not once! Sure, there was racism in the South but it is quite a stretch to go looking for it on TAGS. As others pointed out bigotry comes in many forms and is directed at many people. But somehow I don't think that fits the agenda you have here.
Why does NC have to be like Texas? I've known people from both states and the cultures vary significantly. As a Yankee from the North if given a choice I would rather mingle around NC than Texas as a lot of Texans are xenophobic. As to casting on a sitcom I would not draw too many conclusions as to social policy and practice. As said elsewhere in this forum the Mayberry shown on the show would not overly reflect a NC town in the early 1960's. The show was good for some laughs but was never presented as a history lesson. By the way the episodes "A Black Day for Mayberry" and "Citizen's Arrest" are coming up on the Me TV schedule and you will see African Americans in the crowd scenes.
Assuming 100 meals per month not counting snacks and late dessert I would bet he ate out on his own money for 80 meals or more for that month. I don't think that Aunt Bea bringing lunch or having Barney over for dinner happened all that much. Dinner with Thelma Lou was not implied to be a regular occurrence. I think that in a couple episodes he sent money home to his mother.
He just about always ate out which is not a good use of income.
Ralph probably lost more through his schemes than Norton even though the series never touched on it much. Ralph probably played the numbers more than he ever let on to Alice about it.
People need to see the production aspect of wardrobes for characters. A "uniform" costume ultimately is cheaper as it can be used in filming most scenes of a show. A lot of times it is not literally a uniform but just a standard way of dressing a character. Like the Skipper with his polo shirt or Andy Taylor in his sheriff's uniform. Studios back then had a reputation of pinching pennies when it came to production costs and very few names such as Lucy and Desi were big enough to avoid the mandates.
Drinking in the AM? Jackie Gleason has been dead for decades.
You will never make friends with that kind of attitude. Are you feral?
I see that logic eludes you. Not all Trump supporters are MAGA people. That aside some people can see that this trial is a farce. Enjoy your delusions while they last. By the way McDonalds does accept online applications so you can take care of that in between your trolling efforts. At 20 dollars per hour you will forget about this place and be able to afford toilet paper which I would guess is the source of your crustiness.
Bitter and alone (you) is no way to go through life. That's assuming that you are not being paid ten cents per post for this drivel that you dream up. Fast food in California is paying 20 dollars per hour so now is your chance to move up in the world.
I think that the Thasians were like most parents and that is another point of the episode. Over 99 percent of parents in the US do not teach their kids to murder other beings at least who are similar to themselves biologically. Yet people go out and commit murder intentionally. As Charlie said himself the Thasians do not love and by the standards Charlie would understand they exhibit little in the way of compassion. I believe remorse is born out of compassion. The overall lack of compassion in the world today will be a major factor in its doom.
How many people develop a conscience when they get their way all the time? By my experience very few.
Giving him special powers such as altering matter deprived him of the need to grow emotionally. The crew felt sorrow for Charlie at the end as perhaps if he was ordinary meaning no special powers he might have grown into a mature and empathetic person. Charlie as he was had no empathy and was no different than a contemporary rich kid who has everything done for him and is shielded from the law when he makes serious mistakes. The downside being friendship is temporary and fleeting. That the kid is stuck with "dad" aka the Thasians to make his lifestyle function.
I liked Bonanza. I think it was smart in having a family centered show versus a shoot'em up. Plenty of the latter on the air back then.
Quite well, thank you. One definition of liberalism is preferring or promoting change. I see communists and socialists as a subset of liberalism. Not all liberals are communists or socialists but all communists and socialists are liberals in that they prefer change from a preexisting system. I use those terms because they indicate the ultimate direction of quite a few people want to go while leftism has some vagueness to it. I think that a person is kidding themselves if they believe most current liberals want to maintain the current economic, social, and political system in the US. Have you contemplated your standing in a new system. Agitators in the old order are normally liquidated in a new order in fear that they will do the same in the new order.
I never used the word "leftist" in my post. Most people here who foam at the mouth about Trump are liberals. And not well informed at that. So what are you?
The liberal fools here ignore the obvious. Why talk up a system that will ultimately crap on them? Every liberal including the ones here think that they will be a part of the ruling class once their "ideal" system is in power. I've got news for them. Socialist and communist governments are normally the ultimate in pyramid schemes. Very few in power and most are expected to toil endlessly in menial work such as cleaning toilets. The powers in place would normally assign a majority of them to a hard labor camp and then work/starve them to death in short order. The powers in place would feel less threatened this way. Outright threats will be charged with false crimes then imprisoned for life or even executed. The willingness of Narwhale37 to speak out against political opponents will boomerrang back against him. So what will be his ultimate fate in his socialist paradise. He is not overly intelligent so not a severe threat to his desired masters. 40 percent probability that he cleans toilets and given hard drugs to mute any desire to rebel against his new masters. 60 percent probability he will be judged guilty of a crime against the state then placed into a hard labor camp. Just an FYI for Narwhale in that although it may be a camp there will be no roasting of marshmallows nor singing of songs that do not praise the new regime.
It's ORENTHAL JAMES by the way. And most people were unaware of him before his time with the Bills. Hate him for what he did in terms of murdering two people but he was perhaps the best known sports figure of the 1970's. Boys wore his number 32 on tee shirts in colors that reflected the Bills' red, white, and blue.