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

Gen X grew up in the greatest time of racial harmony that this country has ever seen. We grew up color blind for the most part. A black middle class was emerging in the 70s that was living side by side with the white middle class. My small southern town 20 miles west of Atlanta was a great example of what was happening all across the south. The tumultuous 50s and 60s had ended and black families were moving into suburbia and establishing the American dream. We grew up together in a time when blacks and whites worked, played, and just lived life together. Our dads worked at the same places and coached our rec league sports together. As kids and teens, we went to school together, played , rode bikes in the woods together, partied together, etc.. We embraced each others musical and entertainment offering. Shows like Different Strokes, Good Times, What’s Happening, The Jeffersons ,etc. appealed to white kids as much as black kids. We were on our way up to a new age of harmony and we had it in the palm of our hands…organically and not forced. It was genuine and real.

And then, sometime around the late 80s and early 90s, nefarious intentions by the then hidden marxists embedded in society monetized blacks into a victim class. The Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharptons of the world created chaos out of isolated incidents of individual racist acts and made blacks believe that it was white society at large that was racist and not just individuals. And then the pile on in the early 2000s by the institutional commies occured and they took the ball and ran with it to the point where we are now in a worse place than we were in 1970.

I grew up in a better time. All of Gen Xers did. I see it completely opposite as you. Race relations are worse than the 70s and 80s.

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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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That was Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor and host of the show Finding Your Roots. He's 50% white by DNA.

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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.

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Are you blind? You could argue that the post Rodney King 90s were a better time for race relations than today. The left has weaponized this and the useful idiots have bought it hook line and sinker.

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Will this be the last generation to grow up were things were more “racially” divided.

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I'd opine that Gen X grew up with the most racial harmony in US history, since we were progressing up until then and seem to have regressed since. We're more divided now than we have been since the 60s.

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Dirk Dawgler

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Excellent post and dead on for pretty much anyone from the rural south.

To consistently be called "racist" now by elite white lefties in the media that have only lived with elite white progressives their whole lives.

A lot of the replies in this thread are beyond hilarious, especially those mocking anyone who points out that Obama destroyed race relations for generations. This is a fact, and is very unfortunate.

As someone who grew up in the 90s and 00s, the world has gone absolutely insane with race, gender, politics, and other shite. We used to be able to disagree as a country and not lose our collective minds.

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Will this be the last generation to grow up were things were more “racially” divided.

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do you even pay attention to modern times? Past few years have been as racially divided as the 60s.

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Im Gen X and while i was watching the incredible Fast Car performance with Tracy Chapman, a gay (?) black woman and Luke Combs , a white country baw- i thought to myself: Why cant this be life ?… and Im not being sarcastic .

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My GenX experience is that it has been life. Even during the Obama era when racial tensions were flamed, most people were immune to that shite and saw it for what is was - a political tool.

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.

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did you not watch The Cosby Show?

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No I didn't. But, I never missed an All in the Family show with the great Archie Bunker. Never missed an episode of Sanford and Son either.

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That song sucked when it came out 25 years ago.

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Couldn’t stand it then or now. Nails on a chalkboard.