The Smothers Brothers Ponder the Question: What is the nicest black mens watch?

This may be a very unpopular answer to this question, and I surely don't want to offend anyone, but when I read it the very first thing that popped into my mind was the Smothers Brothers singing My Old Man.

Bear in mind that I have heard them sing it once - maybe twice if I saw the re-run - in 1967. And the moment I read the question, "What is the nicest black men's watch?" this song was the first thing that occured to me!

So I just had to share it with you! This version seems to have been edited or perhaps it is not the same version I saw, but you will get the idea.

To look at this video now, one might think it is racist, but in 1967, it was anything but that. Of course, today we don't use the word "negro", but at that time it was the preferred politically correct term, and it was so much better than the terms that were commonly used.

I clearly remember Dick and Tommy having a lengthy exchange about how Tommy's "Old Man" was not a negro, and even if he was (GASP!) there is no such thing as a "negro's raincoat" and a "negro's hat" because everybody wears the same kinds of clothes, and you can't label people's clothes by their race, creed or color. This was very daring of the Smothers Brothers back in those days. Their repeated use of this politically correct term, implication that a white man might have an "old man" who was a negro, and their assertion that everybody's clothes are the same made a real, positive statement. This was at a time when the nation was just beginning to wake up to the fact that separate is not equal and that there were not gaping, insurmountable differences between people of different races.

It took a lot of fighting, rioting, protesting, convincing and general effort to educate the public to the notion that there was not and should not be "negro's clothing" and white clothing, "negro's housing" and white housing, "negro's schooling" and white schooling and "negro's water fountains" and white water fountains, and so on.

So my question now has to be: Is there really such a thing as a "black men's watch" today?

Have times really changed that much that we now (once again) have black accessories and white accessories as a matter of course? If so, is that a good thing? If it is a good thing, why is that?

You may think I am asking that rhetorically, but I am not. Feel free to answer.