• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    3 months ago

    yes. do you believe all black people in 1960 were on welfare? Do you believe no black people in 1960 had decent jobs. Discrimination is about relative opportunity of the time and believe it or not they do not have it better now. Heck we are losing much of what came out of the 60’s.

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      3 months ago

      I believe that Black boomers didn’t have everything handed to them like white boomers, among other oppressed groups.

      Times are easy or hard depends on who you are and your place in class society.

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        3 months ago

        I never said boomers had everything handed to them. In a nutshell I said times were overall easier and have been getting worse since.

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            3 months ago

            no but segregation now is worse. do you think it ended and do you think its better with more pollution because your going to be surprised how segregation works?

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              3 months ago

              Yes, many forms of racist oppression have either stayed the same or gotten worse, particularly the prison industrial complex and with police killings just replacing lynchings.

              But are you telling me that Black boomers had it easy under segregation and Jim Crow?

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                3 months ago

                Jim crow. The last of them were overturned in 65. They started in the millenia before. Thats actualy a good example of how things where improving in general for them compared to the generations after.

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                  2 months ago

                  You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn’t really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.

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                    2 months ago

                    so it would be better to suffer and not to improve. As bad as jim crow was getting out of it was a good thing and going back to it is not a good thing.