“Boy the way Glenn Miller played,

Songs that made the hit parade,

Guys like us, we had it made.

Those were the days."

These are the opening song lyrics for a TV series that first aired in 1971 called “All in the Family.” The show was built around a character named Archie Bunker who shocked the nation with his verbal assaults rooted in racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, and even ethnic bias against other white populations such as the Polish.

Even his own family was not exempt from his verbal assaults. His wife, Edith, was regularly referred to as “a dingbat.” His son-in-law, Michael, who was himself of Polish extraction, was called “a meathead.” His daughter Gloria was never anything more that “a little girl,” despite being fully grown and married. In point of fact, the

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