I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
There at least existed a sense of … decorum. Yes racism was ubiquitous, but people were forced to go about it obliquely. Because of that, there were a bunch of white people who identified with minorities when minorities were under attack. Welfare moms meant black single mothers, but plenty of white people looked at the verbiage and said, “wait a second, I need welfare.”
It perpetuated a near-universal understanding that racism is shameful. Now it’s a joke and the racists have more power.