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Author: randomsurfer

Jan 3rd 2015 at 3:50:36 PM

* Invoked on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' when Archie gets recruited into a new social club, the Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders. Once he realizes what they're up to he tries to get out of it; ultimately, he tells them that he has "black blood" (due to a blood transfusion during an operation the previous year - the donor was black). He then threatens to call on his "brothers" to run the Kouncil out of town if they don't do it themselves.
-->Mitch: There's a whole lot of us, Bunker.
-->Archie: Well let me tell you there's a whole lot of ''us''.
-->Mitch: "Us" who?
-->Archie: Us blacks. ''[snip]]'' That gives me the right to call out a whole gang of my black blood brothers! To come with me, and back me up! And if we catch youse guys burning any crosses, we're gonna come up here, and we're gonna bust your honkie heinies.
* Invoked in ''Theatre/{{Showboat}}''. Steve is white, and his wife Julie is mixed-race, passing for white--their marriage was a crime in the South at the time. When someone tips the local sheriff off and he comes to arrest them, Steve quickly cuts Julie's hand and swallows her blood; when the sheriff arrives, he asks, "You wouldn't call a man a white man that's got Negro blood in him, would you?" He swears to having that blood in him (and thus, he pretends to be passing for white); the two are able to leave the boat, and the South, in peace.