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In reply to the discussion: White progressives’ racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities — and the left [View all]Warpy
(111,367 posts)including the bottom of the heap black folks who did the worst jobs with the least security and the most daily humiliation.
What they didn't have to face is a bogus war on drugs used as an excuse first to jail so many of their sons and now to shoot them. Now damned few can boast a living wage and they still do the worst jobs, although there has been some mobility, I'm delighted to say.
The only thing better about the 1950s was the pay. If you were a white male, you didn't have to work too hard to be a success compared to everybody else. The rest of us were segregated and ghettoized into certain occupations that paid poorly and had nowhere to advance, although the poor pay was relative and still allowed us to feed ourselves if we were careful.
The rest of what was going on in the 50s outside the paycheck was pretty awful and I don't think too many people who lived through it would want to repeat it. Most of the people who want to go back there were born later and only know the 50s from "Leave it to Beaver" reruns.