a review by Alpin MacLaren

I DON’T KNOW if you are old enough to remember when All in the Family first hit the airwaves, but it was the single most important piece of media propaganda used by our enemies to undermine American Whites. It leaped to the top of the rating charts, was “very entertaining” and continued to be the number one show for five years. It first aired in January 1971, four months after I was first married, and it featured a main character who — like Gran Torino‘s main character — also was happy to throw out racist slurs and “bigoted” ideas.

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