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Oh, the 50s. Horrible for minorities. Let's see: what was the divorce rate among blacks? Virtually none. So, stable families. The whole folk/people crips/bloods and other gangs as we know them today simply did not exist. So no big drug problem, heck, no drug problem. Coke and heroin would get you shunned in any community. Crime in black or white neighborhoods was nowhere near what it became in the 60s with urban renewal, coddling criminals, excuse making. Yes, there were black neighborhoods with booming commercial districts, not commercial deserts like now in many places. At one time there was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn5OmF23HY
Baseball became integrated, but as a result, a whole class of black ownership and management lost work.
The civil rights movement was mentioned. Back then you had men in suits carrying signs "I am a man." They wanted to be able to get into the trades that the whites had a lock hold upon. They were bottled up in neighborhoods way too small for their numbers and wanted the breathing room that the whites enjoyed once the expressways made suburbs possible. I believe I mentioned on this blog before that whites would've somewhat emptied the cities once the car came to every family even if it was an all European country just to get away from the crowding, pollution, and corruption. Today you got guys in tank tops and cargo shorts looting stores because a thug and felon got shot by a cop.
Sure back then you had slum housing and fire traps that needed reform. But nothing like Detroit today (which was the richest city in the 50s) that looks like Nagasaki after the blast and is as dangerous as 1982 Beruit.
Man, I grew up in Gary. I heard older blacks as well as whites moan, "In my day, it was never like this." The blacks in the 40s and 50s were just as black as the ones in the dangerous 60s and 70s, so what gives?
Public housing didn't require one to be indigent, so at least in Chicago it was quite white, mirroring the group living in or near that neighborhood, Poles, Croatians, Italians, and of course blacks. It was decent living quarters for all the G.I.s coming home from WW II or Korea, and no one tore up the joint.
And I don't think social repression has let up one bit. It has shifted focus, but us being freer today? Hardly. Case in point everything the SJWs ever do to make people into social and workplace pariahs.
Jan 23, 2016, 8:07:16 AM
Posted to Why the Left Hates the 1950's