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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (14665)	6/23/2001 10:34:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15481

yes, but there are a bunch of boxing matches on tonight. De La Hoya fight coming up in a little bit. So, what is your personality type on the Myers Briggs scale?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (14665)	6/23/2001 10:36:47 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15481

From today's Chicago Tribune: chicagotribune.com (link will only work for a couple days; article posted below) A bigot who taught us tolerance June 23, 2001 The death Thursday of actor Carroll O'Connor, 76, marked a milestone for Americans of a certain age. We remember O'Connor best as the lovable bigot, Archie Bunker, in the TV sitcom "All in the Family." Much more was at work than comedic artistry. Whatever our race, faith or politics, there was an unsettling element of Archie in all of us. When it first appeared in 1971, the show tackled the problem of bigotry in shockingly head-on terms. Archie Bunker exulted in mouthing ethnic slurs that had been taboo before on TV. But Archie reflected reality: most of us have spoken vile words we wouldn't want the objects of our scorn to hear. Archie didn't care. He was working-class, conservative, narrow-minded, America-love-it-or-leave-it and racist to the core. He said things about African-Americans, gays, feminists, liberals and foreigners that offended audiences. He called his liberal son-in-law "Meathead," insulted his neighbors and chauvinistically told his wife, "Stifle yourself, Edith." In doing so, he also forced Americans of all hues and ideologies to confront their own narrow-minded, racist or bigoted conduct. O'Connor's enthusiastically played character helped nudge us closer to a tolerance--still far from fully realized--that built on earlier progress driven by the civil-rights movement, anti-war demonstrations and the sexual revolution of the 1960s. By bringing the bigot out of the closet and showing him for the buffoon he was, Carroll O'Connor took some of the sting out of the ignorance and intolerance that most of us had heard--not just in Archie's living room, but in our own. He may have made some bigots proud by validating their antics in prime time. If so, they missed the point. He was an antihero, a flawed human being who tried to build himself up by tearing down others. He was lazy about his own views and, week by week, we saw him forced to confront the illogic and illusion behind them. Mostly, he made us all--whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Christians, Jews, Muslims, men, women--laugh at ourselves. He made us think about how we treat each other, about the kind of society we had become and whether it was the one we wanted to pass on to our children. In doing so, Carroll O'Connor did something extraordinary: He made a difference. The CBS show ran through 1979, but it endures as a model for tackling tough subjects. There is some Archie Bunker in the Jeffersons, in Homer Simpson, in Will and Grace--in all of us. By behaving badly, he taught us to behave better. Way to go, Arch. Those were the days.