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"Weak men create hard times"
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Read this very carefully. Do you think this applied to Black people in 1960?
I believe that Black boomers didn't have everything handed to them like white boomers, among other oppressed groups.
Times are easy or hard depending on who you are and your place in class society.
Times were not overall easier for everyone under segregation. You're just looking at history through a white lens.
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?
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.
Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.
If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.
Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?
The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn't. Black people have never had it easy in this country.
It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”
Lol of course not, so I'll repeat myself and say it's funny how this never comes up in the "death to America" and "such and such is the West's fault" of the other hexbear posts you comment in. I know you're being a contrarian teenager right, but that's the kind of stuff that makes hexbear posters look dumb.
So mad about it that you had to mention it twice unprompted.
"Fellas, does mention common refrains of someone you're talking with make you MAD??"
I have no idea what you're even trying to say.
This thread is a circle jerk about how boomers had it easy. I just wanted to remind people that it was only the white ones that had it easy, and in particular, the able-bodied straight Christian men.