For someone of my age (I grew up in the 70s and 8os) Amos ‘n’ Andy is both a bellwether and a lightning rod. It was used as short hand in public dialogue about race in representation. It represented the outer limit of what we must never go back to, of mistakes we must never make again. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:58AM on November 23, 2013