There's been plenty of interviews with blacks who lived through that era who agree things were better then.

Maybe in California they threw trash everywhere. Oh wait they still do except it human trash living, shitting ect and needles ect again. BS statement out of California.

Neighborhoods were a lot nicer. I can go to areas that were absolutely beautiful when I grew up. Now they are a nasty ass shit hole full of garbage. It always makes me sad to see places that were once so nice turned into dumps with crack houses and drug dealers and garbage everywhere. Kinda like California is now in San Francisco, LA, areas of Chicago and just forget New York City. I'm sure along with all the garbage back then crime was more rampant than today also.

It's just another underscore troll account, thinking that it's cleverly insulting the forum with it's clever name and clever hipster ways.

Pay it no mind, because it gets a free pass and will stick around for a while.

My observation is that trash is making a comeback.

The wet dream of every socialist democrat is a race riot.

“One never knows when the homosexual is about.”

I was blessed with the opportunity to listen to 6 WWII POWs speak of their experience at one of my commands POW month honors. The first four were captured by the Nazis and told of their difficult experiences. The last two were victims of the Imperial Japanese. They suffered heinous treatment where the majority of their compatriots were murdered by the Japanese. The two Japanese POWs were broken men and cried openly and had +150 people in the audience crying along with them ... the Nazi POWs comforted the Japanese prisoners who were suffering +50-years after their abuse.

I spent hour hour days at Pearl Harbor. I loved listening to the docents speaking of December 7th and the war that followed. I was stationed in Japan for almost five years and speak some Japanese, not as much as your nephew apparently. The Japanese adults were somber and respectful. There were groups of American school children who weren't. Having heard the story of the laughing Japanese tourist I watched very very carefully among all the Americans kids having fun on a day out of school. Nope.

I've experienced more hatred from the Hawaiians than the Japanese.

So? Never let perfect be the enemy of good.

This. They had to make it fit a narrative.

Cite.
The "contrarian skeptic" schtick gets old.

You always seem to speak in absolutes, trying to be edgy, but rarely have any evidence behind what you say.

Of course you would, you weren't the one being oppressed. Lmao!

I was born in 78 but if it turns out we are living in a simulation. I'm going to ask for mine to set to Andy Griffith or leave it to beaver. I've always felt like an old soul and thought I was born a few years too late.

Concur.  Not a perfect world then but there were no drive bys, heavy substance abuse, gangsterism, rioting (dignified by calling it flash mobs), store looting and burning, home invasions, carjackings.  Blacks had a better chance of making it then than today.

It's really up to the individual today.

Met a black man who grew up in NYC.  He refused to go out for recesss and always asked for permission to remain in the classroom to do homework or get tutoring.  His teachers didn't mind and he got an education unlike many of his classmates.  It was safer with the teacher than getting beaten up in the playground.

Last, one of the most accomplished black guys is a conservator at Colonial Williamsburg.  He figured he had no future in inheriting the family farm.  He walked over 90 miles (no bus fare) to Williamsburg where his aunt lived and got a job at Colonial Williamsburg.  Unskilled, he worked as a laborer with a group of blacks doing road repair.  His foreman noticed he was bright and told Wallace Gusler (head conservator and the guy in the film, Gunsmith of Colonial Williamsburg) about him.  Wallce gave him some simple tasks which he performed well.  The tasks became more difficult and Wallace had him hired as a conservator trainee and trained him.  He did so well he received a national award for conservation.  He was also illiterate and when Wallace figured that out (he always orderd the same food at a restaurant like Wallace did), Wallace enrolled him in adult school so he learned to read and write.  Lesson:  A motivated person regardless of race can make it today in America.  You have to have the drive and persistance to do it.  Try that in another Turd World Nation.

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There's a reason why I chose my user name.

Yep. I too was born on the mid 50's. Everything is relative, and so I can compare now with growing up in the 60s and know how sick western culture now is. The change started in 1965 but couldnt take full hold until the 90s and 2000s because there was still enough of the old standards and ethics ingrained in many boomers by their parents and that society they lived in. With each new generation, less of the old standards get passed on. I did things I'm not proud of in the 70S as a young man. But the point is I have a conscience and moral compass passed onto me and know the difference. Now 60 years later,  too many young people are the product of nothing more then a good screw, are parentless, or subjects of an abusive upbinging, and ultimately raised by the rules of the street. Our all inclusive society panders to them in woke and vote buying. Yes, I miss growing in the 60s for good reason other than nostalgia.

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Yep. My Dad and Grandmother picked cotton for $4-5 dollars a day. 200 pounds was a good day at $2 per hundred. A good farmer could farm 40-50 acres per year. Fertilizer came in 100 and 200 pound bags. Mules were just getting replaced by tractors.  TV was black and white. Indoor bathrooms were a luxury. Same as a refrigerator and/or freezer. Most people had one vehicle around here. Most roads were dirt or poorly paved. Trucks had one seat and there were no seatbelts. Cigarette smoking was rampant. Pull up to a full service gas station and get a dollars worth of gas. Windows were washed, oil checked, and tires.

I wish I could have lived it.

Have you compared mother married to a working father, incarceration, drug use, and violent early death numbers for African Americans living in the 1950s vs now?

IDK seems they all black only spaces now.......had tons of those in the 50s. They might actually like it.

I’d love to go back that, except for the one obvious thing you mentioned.

In my opinion, and I’m not an extremist on religion, our society’s downfall correlates precisely to two things:
Welfare, which incentivizes fatherless homes, and government dependency & attacking Christianity.

The more those two issues progressed, the further we as a society have regressed.

Yet, they had a better chance of having a dad at home back then....