- Jan 8, 2011
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Dispute any of the points made in the OP, or STFU!So let me boil it down. In 1950, life was pretty good if you were a straight white male. In some cases not great but still largely good. White women were considered second class citizens and subservient. People of color of both sexes were considered to be beneath notice. God help you if anyone ever found out you were gay, trans or anything else. You wouldn't be worthy of recognition as even human. Older baby boomers like wrapping themselves in this blanket nostalgia with an image of white children playing in a yard surrounded by a white picket fence and the American flag flapping gently in the background while Dad sips his coffee and Mom is confined to the kitchen baking and cleaning. But like all nostalgia, that ain't the way it was for a lot of people. If you think unequal treatment under the law is an issue now, you should have heard my grandfather talking about raising a family in St Louis in the middle of WW2 and beyond. And television? A whitewashed, scrubbed down version of milquetoast bland that glossed over history, was overtly racist and sexist, and pandered to a select group of white people to get them to buy into the America that politicians wanted to see after soldiers came home from war.