::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . Actor Sherman Hemsley, known to millions as "George Jefferson" and "Deacon Frye," passed away on July 24. Hemsley first appeared on "All in the Family" as the bigot Archie Bunker's immutable neighbor and counterpart.  He continued to put race and prejudice in the spotlight on the spin off show, "The Jeffersons."  No other Black character got away with abrasively speaking their mind like Jefferson did and perhaps no one else succeeded with putting racism under America's microscope. George Jefferson was going to be treated as an equal though his approach was ironically a double standard (his counterparts could never get away with saying the things that he called them i.e "zebra" and the "H-word"). Right or wrong as a Black man who made it to the "deluxe apartment in the sky" Jefferson represented what so many Blacks wanted to be. He did and said what most Black people wanted to do and sa...