A blast from the Past!
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Boomers get a bad rap, but starting in the 60s they damn near obliterated racism in the United States.
Well, that's an overstatement; racism never completely went away, but the dramatic shift in attitudes, from looking down on others based on skin color to "we're all brothers and sisters" was started in earnest by teens and others in the 60s. The Beatles refused to play for any segregated audience when they came to America in 1964, and I've never heard of a fan being upset by that. Racism was already on it's way to being disreputable.
By the the time Blazing Saddles came out in 1974, racism had faded to the point where making fun of it was commonplace enough that the often-hilarious Mel Brooks comedy wasn't even controversial.
Such a movie couldn't even be MADE today, here in the land of the Easily Offended and Triggered, where your skin color DEFINES you -- at least to those on the far Left.
I look forward to the return of sanity on this issue (and on plenty of others).
Yay for those hippies who fell hook line and sinker into drugs, depression and a generational malaise!
Honestly you're partially correct. However once drugs came full force that was over. Even the 50s get a bad rap {obviously civil rights and such} but the black family was stronger than today by a huge margin.
Once you decimate families, they look for a boogie man. And when the true boogie man is seemingly helping you, well then you find another conveniently given to you-by your big brother government!
Then they moved onto obliterating white families, especially from the mid 70s on.
And purposely made one sect the beneficiaries of monetary handouts, and the other left to whither on the vine. So they could forment the division and hatred that has steadily progressed right up until today.
The federal government needed that boogie man to be alive. Divide and conquer.
Uh, well SOME boomers did, but you can say the same about any generation, including whatever yours is.
Every generation since has been worse. But it started right there with that generation.
Thank you for finally saying this. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to. We do get a bad rap. We are the ones that furthered color blindness more than any other generation. It makes me very sad to see how our strides have been set back. We were also the first to march for clean air and clean water. So there.