re: Anyone else feel like racism wasn’t a thing in the mid 2000s?

I agree with OP - last summer all the black kids that I played ball with and was friends with on Facebook all these years suddenly got all angry and started ranting about systemic oppression and all the racism they dealt with in Metairie growing up. Was really strange.

The only thing I even vaguely remember that was semi legit is this one girls dad wouldn’t let one of these guys date his daughter. But you’d think they grew up in Jim Crow south the way they moaned about Trump and George Floyd and the south and how awful they had it. Really not true - they were happy kids and we all got along really well for like 20 years.