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The In Character Blog got another shot at drive-time today -- this time on Morning Edition. Host Renee Montagne read excerpts from this essay on George Jefferson for something like 13 million coffee-swilling NPR junkies -- complete with a clip from the beloved TV series.

Congrats to Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite of Atlanta, Ga., who made the nomination. You could be next -- but only if you've submitted yours.

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as an african-american of the middle class, i was forbidden to watch GOOD TIMES and THE JEFFERSONS, as the portraits they gave of the black family were buffoonish at best. george jefferson was loutish and ignorant, a white man's idea of how black businessmen behave that in the 1970s was just one step removed from BIRTH OF A NATION.

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