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I grew up in the 70s. My parents used really diparaging language about minorities. Lot's of people did. It was as wrong then as it is now. I don't know how this person didn't notice that going on around her.

#NotADeepThinker

By the time I was 5, my suspicions grew as my mother kept tossing my French fries with Indian chili powder.

I mean, to be fair, black is right in your name.

Um, I was a kid in the 70s. I remember watching Sanford & Son, Good Times, and The Jeffersons. I read about Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s record and getting all kind of backlash. I guess this lady missed all that.

As a young adult in the '70s in N. Jersey, people still called Puerto Ricans "spicks," Jews the K word, and blacks the N words. Occasionally, you heard wop, guinea, and dago. Poles were still the brunt of stupid jokes. I was told that my family lived in the Irish ghetto b/c we didn't own a home.

"During the 1960s, Milwaukee was one of the most racially segregated cities in the nation." uwm.edu/marchonmilwa...

At least there were five, maybe six episodes that touched on race relations. Okay, two episodes, and a handful of appearances by a black actor who went on to do porn. ...Yeah, I kinda see your point....

Yikes, yeah that Mila Joy is dangerously deranged

Amazing and yet not surprising just how many white Americans feel the same way she does, my mother in law would say this about the 1940’s and 1950’s and that everyone was happy with their lot in life. She was wrong.

I fully believe that, for some people, the statement that they and others around them didn’t see skin color when they were young. I know someone like that, and I’ve slowly been showing him that his childhood was uncommon. People with a broad social awareness should know better, though.

I moved from Detroit to Oregon in 1968. I was in sixth grade and noticed that people in Oregon didn’t see color. There wasn’t any! A little better now but still pretty Tidy-Bowl.

*Soul

William Shatner saying the Trek he was in didn't do politics it did "social commentary", in a show specifically designed to sneak politics past the censors But yeah, rewatching some stuff from when I was younger and other bits hit a lot harder than I remember

Nah, it only makes sense if you are a racist white adult. Even white kids of that period could always tell that America is a racist society. That's because they spent lots of time around white adults. She knows she's lying.

There were a few years when woke waz sorta cool, Fat Albert & J5 cartoons on Saturday morning, black sitcoms on prime time, Roots, woke coke ads, disco, etc. Reagan swept all that away.

The first Black family in our town got a cross burned in their yard. This was in the 80s.

Amen

Maybe he meant he didn't yet own a color tv

Exactly.

Ah yes, I remember my youth in a Detroit suburb where the only POC I ever saw were the maids trudging up the street from the bus stop to work in the white ladies' homes all day. And my Dad called them "useless N*****s."

She doesn’t realize that she NEEDS to see color in order to appreciate the culture and contributions of others that don’t look 👀 like her. But then again, maybe she just wants to live in a world where only white people exist. 🤔

No one saw color in her neighborhood because no one of color lived in her neighborhood She’s deluded

When Laverne and Shirley aired an episode with a Black FBI agent, 18-year-old me already knew that wasn’t a 50s truth. Yuck!

Happy Days takes place in the 50s which is idolized as the most perfect time in US history. It wasn’t. But since it was on TV is must have been, right? I think it was a whitewashing of US brains.

I think about this Nikki Haley tweet quite a bit. bsky.app/profile/clay...

donald trump made bigotry, racism, antisemitism and violence seem acceptable...

in 1972 my older sister was in a band exchange program. one of the band exchange students was black. being in small country hick town USA no other families were willing to take this person. my mom and dad had no problem with it. so just a story from 1970's

Also may be a big part of the reason A Christmas Story gets it's own dedicated channel during the holiday season

Much like men who want wives who take care of them as if they were children, because when "back in the day" they were children, their mothers took care of them. Because they were children.

Also the “great era” maga yearns for

I've seen this same account with many similar takes, and I really think it's someone Elon boosts to go viral and push a campaign of "The Left went too far and we lost the Good Old Days!"

youtu.be/qOfkpu6749w

Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, also.

Happy Days had zero accuracy for white people as well. I usually don't learn my history from sitcoms.

She grew up in a silver lined cloud.

but also republicans have turn on the heat on cultural wars to 1000% regular

I grew up in the 1970's and 1980's, and I don't know how she could think we "didn't see color then". My gut feeling is that she's either knowingly lying, or deluding herself. Probably a bit of both.

I grew up in the '70s and '80s too and what this woman said is a complete lie. We ALL saw color; imagining it otherwise is absolute BS. But such is entitled denial.

I grew up as a multiracial child in the 80s. Everyone saw colour. The amount of racist ‘jokes’ I heard could fill the oceans twice over.

I am GenX and the 70s & 80s we’re racist AF. Did these people not know any minorities?

Like in small towns where there were no persons of color?

Yup. I'm sure the songwriter did that deliberately. I will say my parents, who weren't rich during the Depression, were permanently scarred.

"Gee our old LaSalle ran great" (slightly cheaper Cadillac line that General Motors closed in 1940 as it threatened to take the whole company down with it)

To be fair, the character of Archie Bunker was a caricature and everything he said -- and that song -- were meant ironically. Sadly some people didn't understand that and actually thought Archie was a great guy. 😖

Norman Lear knew what he was satiring

Exactly

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Like I said: Anil *Smash* right here

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, this was only true if you lived somewhere that had no diversity. Everywhere else, race and ethnicity were defining characteristics of everyone, including the very Irish-American kid from Brooklyn.

I will point out that this Happy Days story was produced. www.imdb.com/title/tt0596...

She's an idiot.

Holy cow. How old is this woman? Did she not watch "The Jeffersons" or "All in the Family"? Race was all over entertainment and the news

One of the people who saw "All in the Family" as a light sitcom 🙄

I don’t know where she was living but I remember being called a wetback when I was a kid during the 80’s

What’s annoying about this is that there has been slow and steady progress within DEI but they’re seeing it as regression. It’s just the Member Berries nostalgia variation of “these [slurs] today keep shoving it in my face!”. Which is a classic white supremacy position.

This. Grew up in the 70's/80's, too and perspective is KEY - I had this worldview until I realized as a kid you see what suits you & are oblivious to so much. We grew up 'watching' an integrated Sesame Street and The Cosby Show was in our home every week, but that was on TV - not in our backyard.