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re: Gen x and how we were brought up with race and on tv
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:10 am to Willie Stroker
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:10 am to Willie Stroker
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It’s still mostly propaganda. In real life, the overwhelming majority of us don’t have any shits to give about skin color. We still joke about stereotypes because they are still hilarious.
Joke about it publicly and see if you remain employed.
Only one stereotype can be made fun of and it not get you canceled.
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:30 am to IceTea20
I was an early Gen X kid, and I loved me some Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, What's Happenin', That's My Momma, Chico and the Man..
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:34 am to shutterspeed
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We GenXers grew up watching Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, looking up to Mr. T, and listening to Boy George on the radio. It just was what it was. Nothing seemed forced down people's throats nor did there seem to be much outrage. Somehow, people today think they invented all this.
Who looked up to Boy George? I remember us having a big time calling him all manner of ill shite. His music may have been a hit in its time but he was never looked up to in my experience.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:43 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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What?
I'm young Gen X and grew up w/integrated schools and re ally good race relations. Half of my friends are black.
Watched Blossom and The Fresh Prince on Mondays and Martin and In Living Color. You had Sister 2 Sister(The Mowry Twins) and Home Improvement on. Times were good. Race wasn't an issue.
Race might not have been an issue on TV but in real life the crack epidemic and the imbalance in laws against crack and cocaine alone were huge racial issues that still resonate to this day.
I was born the first year of GEN X in East Point, Georgia (Atlanta). I went to segregated schools in the first and second grade in Clayton County Georgia...south Atlanta. I also went to segregated schools in Dawson County in the 4th grade. That would have been in 1972-1975 or there about. Segregated schools 51 years ago within 20 minutes south of downtown Atlanta and less than an hour north of downtown Atlanta. While I did not go to Forsyth County schools, 30 minutes north of downtown Atlanta, they would have been segregated into the early 80's. This is in the progressive south...hard to imagine it being much different in less progressive areas of the south.
As late as the mid 1980s if you drove from Dallas, Georgia to Douglasville, Georgia (half hour west of Atlanta) on a nice weekend day you would have seen klansmen in intersections collecting money like firemen do today...sometimes they would be in the same intersections. This lasted past what is generally considered the Gen X period (1965-1980). You would also see this in Rockdale County (east of Atlanta), Henry and Clayton Counties (South of Atlanta) and in Dekalb (part of Atlanta) and Gwinett Counties. It was a common sight.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 10:48 am
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:46 am to Bestbank Tiger
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Pop culture was much more integrated in the 1980s.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:50 am to AwgustaDawg
You are so full of shite. 
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:58 am to madmaxvol
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:02 am to Centinel
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You are so full of shite.
I am sure that the Fresh Prince of Belair makes you hope so but it is the gospel truth. The fact that there is amply photographic and video evidence of a march to Cumming, Georgia by civil rights activists in Cumming, Georgia in January, 1987. 36 years ago. Most of that photographic and video evidence consists of about 400 people in klan robes and carrying confederate flags and signs with white supremacist slogans on them attacking about 80 people peacefully marching toward the courthouse. 39 miles north of downtown Atlanta. 36 years. in the mid 1970s we lived in Dawson County but spent a good bit of time in Atlanta. In the mid 1970s there were signs at the Fulton / Forsyth County Line that said black people were not welcome...placed there by the Klan. I have seen them numerous times. I know it feels good to say that shite wasn't going on in Atlanta as late as 1987 but feeling good and reality are often not aligned with one another.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:41 am to NPComb
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That song sucked when it came out 25 years ago.
Couldn’t stand it then or now. Nails on a chalkboard.
Thats kinda crazy to me since, even though ive never worked at a convenience store or been completely destitute- i feel like that’s a song that almost everyone can relate to in some way .
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:52 am to Tvilletiger
The 90s schools was probably the only time in history where shite wasn't really divided by race. We didn't give a shite. Things were going smoothly, then the government needed a distraction to divide us and the media started focusing on it more.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:52 am to Tvilletiger
Gen X here. I attended very diverse K-12 schools and always had friends of other races and race was never an issue. We never even talked about it. We were just friends who hung out and stuff. The first time race was ever brought up with a friend was in college. It has never been a factor in who I choose to socialize and establish friends with.
Thinking back to high school in the late 80's - I don't ever remember people talking about race or racism. But, today I hear it all the time (I teach at a high school).
I think race issues are worse today because younger people have been taught to be obsessed with who or what is racist.
Thinking back to high school in the late 80's - I don't ever remember people talking about race or racism. But, today I hear it all the time (I teach at a high school).
I think race issues are worse today because younger people have been taught to be obsessed with who or what is racist.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 11:58 am to EST
I'm Gen X and of course The Cosbys was on TV but I didn't watch TV much and I always thought it was so weird that black people were on TV because there weren't really any black people where I grew up. I just thought it was some weird Hollywood shite.
The Rodney King riots was the first time I thought "oh wow, there are a lot of black people in Los Angeles."
It was eye opening when I left my hometown area and joined the military.
The Rodney King riots was the first time I thought "oh wow, there are a lot of black people in Los Angeles."
It was eye opening when I left my hometown area and joined the military.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:03 pm to TigerCoon
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That's My Momma
You all know him as Joe the Policeman from the "what's going down?" episode of That's My Mama.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:04 pm to AwgustaDawg
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I went to segregated schools in the first and second grade in Clayton County Georgia..
I’m calling bullshite.
I went to kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade at Church Street Elementary in Riverdale and it wasn’t segregated in the mid 70’s. There were black kids in my class.
Then moved to Madison GA and the school was about 50/50.
Moved to rural GA and it was segregated only by choice. Black people lived in their part of town and went to their restaurants…but they weren’t barred from anywhere. This was 1980ish. Then moved to N GA
Never saw a Klansman except once when they had a march in the late 80’s and everyone laughed at them.
Throughout there were pockets of people with racist ideas but they were all old and have since moved on.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:11 pm to AwgustaDawg
Witnessed a Klan rally firsthand in 1988 just outside Chickamauga Battlefield. So I know for a fact they were still around.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:13 pm to NytroBud
Nobody said they weren’t “still around”. They were just largely irrelevant like they are today.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:21 pm to BurrowToChase
Obama. The Great Divider. Intentional as hell too. Him and his ilk want to start a race war in this country.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:27 pm to TigerCoon
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I was an early Gen X kid, and I loved me some Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, What's Happenin', That's My Momma, Chico and the Man..
Right, but those aren't allowed now because "stereotypes." The only stereotype allowed to be laughed at are white men and maybe rich, white girls. Instead of having things everyone could relate to and thought was funny, we now have every TV commercial and show with a mixed race couple and some Hispanic or Asian best friends so they can hit all the demographics. Those shows were funny because they were relatable. Now we just have politicians on both sides hoping to keep divides of all kinds in place for their own use.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:31 pm to riverparish
Isaac the bartender from Love Boat was Junior on That's My Mama. ooooooo wee.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:41 pm to Tvilletiger
Gen X was brought up on the words of Dr. King. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Each generation since has learned to use race as a weapon. They have embraced the class warfare of Marxism and the medieval doctrine of original sin and extended them to racist rhetoric. You are this, therefore you are that. If you are that, then you are wrong and should be purged or changed.
Each generation since has learned to use race as a weapon. They have embraced the class warfare of Marxism and the medieval doctrine of original sin and extended them to racist rhetoric. You are this, therefore you are that. If you are that, then you are wrong and should be purged or changed.
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