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4 months ago

so it would be better to suffer and not to improve. As bad as jim crow was getting out of it was a good thing and going back to it is not a good thing.

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queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml

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4 months ago

Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.

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4 months ago

they did not have it easy they just lived in a better time when things were getting better. Right now we are coasting on things from that period and before and much has been reveresed.

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queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml

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4 months ago

If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.

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4 months ago

exactly and that is the point is things used to be better. again the change was in the 80’s but they really did not degrade enough as started being felt more in the new millenium.

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queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml

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4 months ago

Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?

The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn’t. Black people have never had it easy in this country.

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4 months ago

war on drugs. that is one of the eighties backsteps. doubling down on the bs. Where do you get the easy. its a question of relative direction and quality of the times. if you say never then you are saying whats happeing now a days is just fine. its all the same. again its driection. the voting rights act was from 1965 but the 2013ish gutting of it is showing up now in many of those states that were limited by it and they are now making last minute laws right before elections to curtail peoples right to vote. its not a good situation. its going backwards.

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