All in the Family (TV Series)

The First and Last Supper (1971)

Mel Stewart: Henry Jefferson

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• Archie Bunker : Oh, you sound just like my son-in-law now.

  Henry Jefferson : Your son-in-law is black?

  Archie Bunker : No! He's only a Polack.

• Archie Bunker : That's interesting too the way you people worked yourself up from the snakes and the beads and the wooden idols right up to our God.

  Henry Jefferson : Whaddaya mean your God?

  Archie Bunker : Well, I mean, God is white, ain't he?

  Henry Jefferson : What makes you think God isn't black?

  Archie Bunker : Well, because I was made in God's image, and you'll notice I ain't black.

  Henry Jefferson : Well, don't complain to me about it.

• Archie Bunker : Every picture I've seen of God, he's white.

  Henry Jefferson : Well, maybe you were looking at the negative!

• Henry Jefferson : [Looking at a souvenir ashtray]  I see you're interested in our space program.

  Archie Bunker : Oh, yeah, that's a genuine facsimile there of the Apollo XIV insignia. That's the thing that separates the U.S. of A. from the Red Chinks and all them other losers.

• Henry Jefferson : Well, if God wasn't black, how come he built us so much better than you?

  Archie Bunker : Are you kiddin'?

  Henry Jefferson : Look at the way it is, man. Take us out of football, take us out of basketball, take us out of the Olympics, and whaddaya got? I can't even think about it - it's pathetic!

• Archie Bunker : If God is black, his son would have to be black, too - you ain't telling me that Jesus is black?

  Henry Jefferson : Now you're catching on! They've already proved that Jesus was Ethiopian.

  Archie Bunker : Wait a minute, you say he's Ethiopian, Presbyterians say he's Presbyterian...