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dawg day

(7,947 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 11:11 AM Nov 2019

I always like the whistling in the opening credits.

But this Mayberry as an all-white town ... well, a good reminder of how pernicious and persistent segregation was on TV. Still is, really.

There's a "Mayberry Cafe" in a town near here, and it plays that show on 5 TVs all the time. "Aunt Bee’s Famous 3 Piece Fried Chicken Dinner"

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