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re: Gen x and how we were brought up with race and on tv

Posted on 2/5/24 at 1:26 am to
Posted by redstick13
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 1:26 am to
Everything went to pot when Andy Griffith died.
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 3:12 am to
I grew up watching the Cosby’s and Sanford and son. I don’t know.
Posted by lsusa
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 3:44 am to
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Race relations were in a great place until 2008 then Obama decided against ending racism one and for all. Instead he not only was the worst president ever, he happily divided the nation and brought us back to the 60s with his divisiveness and race baiting politics. What a pos


If only you had remembered to mention he was a mooslum and a Ken-yin, your dear leader would have been so proud of you.

To be truthful, Biden and Trump have both been far worse presidents than Obama.
Posted by lsusa
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 3:50 am to
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Sanford and son.


We had an old Black & White TV when I was young. One day, I asked my grandmother why Fred was white and Lamont was black.
Posted by lsusa
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:23 am to
For whatever it’s worth, Plato’s Stepchildren aired on November 22, 1968.

Tom and Helen Willis first appeared on All in the Family in 1974 before being recast as regulars when the Jeffersons premiered in 1975.

So basically, for anyone under the age of 50, by the time you were aware and watching TV interracial relationships weren’t something brand new and shocking on TV at least.
Posted by POTUS2024
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:27 am to
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Will this be the last generation to grow up were things were more “racially” divided. Have been watching the Grammys tonight and was realizing the mass music acts are just not marketed to me anymore. That to me is ok but just things are different now. Seems like after my generation things will be naturally much smoother race wise because the younger generations will not know different and think that something has been taken away from them. We will be the last to know it that way. Religion is a totally different subject.


Posted by POTUS2024
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:43 am to
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Biden and Trump have both been far worse presidents than Obama.


Obama was awful and far worse than Trump. The current division in our society was largely put in place, and greatly amplified, by Obama and the residue he left behind. People like Mayorkas didn't come from nowhere and into the Biden admin.
Posted by baobabtiger
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:45 am to
That song sucked when it came out 25 years ago.
Posted by CollegeFBRules
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:48 am to
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You sound like a naysayer


Let a naysayer know.
Posted by TomballTiger
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:33 am to
OK psycho
Posted by CrystalPreserves
Member since May 2019
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:42 am to
Police shootings and mass shootings really cranked up when Michael Jackson died. Seriously, they did.
Posted by Jwils
Member since Jan 2012
1691 posts
Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:48 am to
That is life. Stop listening to the MSM. They want you to think people can't get along anymore.
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
21155 posts
Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:57 am to
Im Xennial. Dont care.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:00 am to
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Seems like after my generation things will be naturally much smoother race wise


Lmao what?
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:04 am to
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 6:05 am
Posted by bad93ex
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Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:06 am to
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Obama was awful and far worse than Trump. The current division in our society was largely put in place, and greatly amplified, by Obama and the residue he left behind. People like Mayorkas didn't come from nowhere and into the Biden admin.



Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:07 am to
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.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 6:10 am
Posted by Earnest_P
Member since Aug 2021
4475 posts
Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:14 am to
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My theory is that we bitch because it seems like something is being taken away from us as viewers


Mannnn. Go to New Orleans or Detroit and then tell me people are just bitching because they don’t get Andy Griffith on tv anymore.

Something very real has been taken from us. I’m not blaming any race for that, but it’s true.
Posted by Naked Bootleg
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Member since Jul 2021
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:28 am to
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You had Prince, George Michael, Gloria Estefan, and the Jets all on the same radio station. The Cosby Show and In Living Color alongside Who's The Boss and Growing Pains.


And things became more colorblind into the 90's and 2000's - white men idolizing black bball stars, hip hop artists sampling nerdy white dudes, racism was starting to feel like a thing from the past. But something happened which created a shamelessly emboldened welfare class and intentional racial division.

Can't quite put my finger on it but it happened around 2008..
Posted by Porpus
Covington, LA
Member since Aug 2022
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:31 am to
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Race relations were in a great place until 2008 then Obama decided against ending racism one and for all. Instead he not only was the worst president ever, he happily divided the nation and brought us back to the 60s with his divisiveness and race baiting politics. What a pos



I remember when he invited that black Harvard professor who got arrested breaking into his own home to the White House for a beer. The cop was there, too. Biden had O'Douls.

It was intended to show how racism could be solved by just communicating, I guess, but it really rubbed me the wrong way. Those of us living in the real world already knew you could be arrested for petty reasons, particularly if you acted like an arse, and didn't see what happened as related to race. And yet here was the President, apparently buying into the hood logic that Whitey can do whatever he wants.

That was really a turning point, I think.
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