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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Sharpton just called Chris Christie the Ralph Cramden of the Republican Party.
He nailed it! I love Al's humor.
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I apologize to you younger DUers ~ but Jackie Gleason played Ralph Cramden in a show called The Honeymooners and he was one big, grumpy man.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)He was a bus driver. There was Archie Bunker, a union worker, who was a Republican. Chris Christie is neither.
CTyankee
(63,708 posts)right in the kisser!"
When I was a young girl growing up in the 50s he scared the sh*t out of me!
It amazes me that domestic violence was the topic of humor in those days...
Cleita
(75,480 posts)she just boldly sneered at him when he said things like that. People actually used violent language a lot back then that they didn't mean. They would threaten to kill someone if such and such happened. Or said stuff like I should beat you to a pulp. But those threats were never carried out. It was just talk.
RagAss
(13,832 posts)CTyankee
(63,708 posts)violence and it wasn't really talked about because these were such "nice" people.
We cannot talk about Ralph Kramden without mentioning this. And I will. Again and again.
It is NOT funny.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)We will disagree and I'm sorry you were a victim of real violence. However, I can't turn back the clock and make Jackie Gleason do it differently. It is what it is.
CTyankee
(63,708 posts)If you weren't alive then, you can't imagine what I experienced seeing what I had seen in my own family and seeing what was being portrayed on TV as "humor." It just freaked me out as a young girl of 12 or 13...
It's fine to leave it there. I am just here to let you know how my own experience makes this character a symbol of a very bad thing in our society...
Walk away
(9,494 posts)ailsagirl
(22,833 posts)Definitely a LOL!!
flamingdem
(39,300 posts)Cha
(295,517 posts)Yeah, that was a loooooooong time ago. Oh well,
Ralph was nicer of course..most people are. Not sure Ralph went around lying like sick dawg, either.
goclark
(30,404 posts)Cha
(295,517 posts)CTyankee
(63,708 posts)violence against women is NEVER acceptable!
Cha
(295,517 posts)It's not acceptable in comedic form,either.
spanone
(135,586 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,620 posts)malaise
(267,455 posts)RagAss
(13,832 posts)Don't stain the place of my birth with that !