Would you trade places with a black man in 1950’s America?
Like I said, there are downsides to every era. The 1950’s was not Leave it to Beaver for everyone.
The movies and TV shows of that era reflect the ideal, but they are not a realistic portrayal of what life was like for most people back then. People are pretty much the same now as they’ve always been, we’re just more open about it in our media.
You know, that’s the same leftist tripe I heard from my professors at U of H day in and day out.
“Would you trade places with a black man in 1950’s America?
Like I said, there are downsides to every era. The 1950’s was not Leave it to Beaver for everyone.
The movies and TV shows of that era reflect the ideal, but they are not a realistic portrayal of what life was like for most people back then. People are pretty much the same now as they’ve always been, we’re just more open about it in our media.”
Nonsense. Folks actually _did_ live that way, “back then” - at least most of the Euro-American (aw, heck, come right out and say it, “white”) folk did. Maybe they weren’t “ideal”, but they certainly knew what “the ideal” was _supposed to be_ back then.
You are dangerously naiive to believe that people today espouse the same ideals and principles as people did back then. A large percentage of the population does not.
One needs only to view the television programs of the fifties vis-a-vis the programs of today, to understand how different today’s world is, and how different the mores and morals of 2008 are vs. 1958.
I’d like to go back to 1954, the good and the bad. The demographic makeup of the nation, as well. The immigration policies in effect for that time, too.
(As an aside, one reason the America of 2008 looks so different, is _because_ of changed immigration policies).
- John