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Posted on 3/25/23 at 11:45 am to lsupride87
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90s as well, the economy was rocking, and socially we were where we need to be
Totally agree. As someone who attended all of high school and undergrad in the 90's, what is happening now is bananas.
We were of the "live and let live" mindset without pushing the envelope to the extremes.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 11:45 am to lsupride87
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If tiger woods was 21 in 1950 he would have been caddying the Masters instead of winning it
“Best” decade….
Not many people gave a crap about golf back then. It was a snob sport until Arnie and Jack came along. Even the NFL had a muted and largely regional fanbase in the 50s and the NBA was even lower than that.
The two big sports were baseball and boxing and they both had plenty of popular black stars - Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, etc...
Regardless, it's pretty stupid to measure the popular success of a decade by looking at the top celebrities and winners of the period instead of the general masses. It's like saying "I don't know why people complain so much about the Great Depression - Henry Ford, Babe Ruth and Charlie Chaplin were living the dream!"
Posted on 3/25/23 at 11:48 am to OmniPundit
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It actually was. I finished high school in 1956,
I finished high school in 1959 - attended our 60th reunion a few years ago. Many classmates missing then and many have passed on since the reunion.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 11:53 am to AUFANATL
quote:You completely missed the point. In the 50s, Americans born with certain skin color did not have the same opportunities and rights as others. Tiger woods is just a very easy way to illustrate that point
Not many people gave a crap about golf back then. It was a snob sport until Arnie and Jack came along. Even the NFL had a muted and largely regional fanbase in the 50s and the NBA was even lower than that. The two big sports were baseball and boxing and they both had plenty of popular black stars - Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, etc... Regardless, it's pretty stupid to measure the popular success of a decade by looking at the top celebrities and winners of the period instead of the general masses. It's like saying "I don't know why people complain so much about the Great Depression - Henry Ford, Babe Ruth and Charlie Chaplin were living the dream!"
It wasn’t the land of the free
This post was edited on 3/25/23 at 11:55 am
Posted on 3/25/23 at 11:56 am to RedRifle
I would go back to living in the 50s and 60 s in a Heart Beat
Today s World sucks
“The only easy day was yesterday”
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:00 pm to RedRifle
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The 1950s were arguably the best decade in the USA
I was born in 1978 and spent my youth in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I can’t imagine there being a better time to be an American.
- It was post-Vietnam and pre-9/11.
- Women and minorities had opportunities.
- Technology was great but not embedded in every second of life.
- Presidents were not utterly despised by half the population.
- A lot of all-time great sports teams and athletes.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:07 pm to lsupride87
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And then with a straight face try to tell him the 50s is the best decade, a time in which he wouldn’t have been allowto accomplish any of the above simply because of hised skin color.
Now do how Whites are treated today by the media, courts, academia, etc.etc. 
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:08 pm to RedRifle
The height of American civilization 1954-1964.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:10 pm to tigerbutt
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Everything you loved about the 50’s & 60’s was because of white people. Everything you love today about New Orleans is because of black people.
Opps..you gonna hurt some woke feelings...
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:17 pm to jclem11
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I'm sure beating kids as punishment was awesome and turned them into well adjusted, functioning members of society.
Why was beating kids as a form of punishment every normalized?
As opposed to all of the "well adjusted members of society" we're churning out today?
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:17 pm to High C
quote:I've never once in my life heard someone say these things.... maybe you should congregate with a different crowd homie
The adults were adults, and family was the center of society. Those things are bad, now, according to those who have the mic.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:19 pm to geauxtigers87
quote:or a time traveler from 1985
Unless you were a woman or minority or a communist
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:20 pm to Globetrotter747
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I was born in 1978 and spent my youth in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I can’t imagine there being a better time to be an American.
We are the same age. 80s childhood and 90s HS & college wasn't a bad draw in life.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:21 pm to stampman
quote:oh man how will you ever recover from the poor mistreatment you suffer daily
Now do how Whites are treated today by the media, courts, academia, etc.etc.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:22 pm to jclem11
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Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
I'm sure it was a lovely time if you were lucky to be in the upper classes and white.
Revisionist history is also a hell of a drug.
Plenty of poor people and minorities were happy. Plenty were not. Just like today.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:23 pm to lsupride87
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It wasn’t the land of the free
Neither was Africa during European colonialism but they had some measure of organized government, agriculture, infrastructure and social accountability. And now they have descended into what would be total anarchy were in not for billions in foreign aid.
Are black people in the US today really so much better off now that when Tiger Woods visits Birmingham, he doesn't have to drink from a water fountain that is an exact replica of the one "whites only" version sitting two feet to the left?
It's easy to condemn the moral and political lapses of previous generations but at some point don't you need to also look at things like illegitimacy rates, crime, poverty, unemployment, health, etc. I'm not defending segregation, just pointing out that some babies got tossed out with the bathwater.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:24 pm to fallguy_1978
I do wish we could take some of the tech and send it back to the 90s though.
I'd have loved a 4k 65 inch TV with a current Generation gaming console in 1995.
I remember linking up 2 PS1s on seperate tvs and playing a DOOM 2 deathmatch against a friend.
I'd have loved a 4k 65 inch TV with a current Generation gaming console in 1995.
I remember linking up 2 PS1s on seperate tvs and playing a DOOM 2 deathmatch against a friend.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:26 pm to AUFANATL
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drink from a water fountain that is an exact replica of the one "whites only" version sitting two feet to the left?
Jesus Christ.
Posted on 3/25/23 at 12:27 pm to SidewalkTiger
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As opposed to all of the "well adjusted members of society" we're churning out today?
We've institutionalized them.
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