queermunist

You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn't really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.

Boomers were alive in the 50s and 60s.

To be fair, a lot of them came into maturity later in the 70s and 80s, but it's an age range of like 20 years.

Generations are bullshit ttbh

Yes, many forms of racist oppression have either stayed the same or gotten worse, particularly the prison industrial complex and with police killings just replacing lynchings.

But are you telling me that Black boomers had it easy under segregation and Jim Crow?

That could apply to individuals, like you said, but you can't apply it broadly like you can apply privileges to white men.

Furthermore, they're doing the same thing today so that literally hasn't even changed.

But defeating the civil rights movement was more about killing off the leaders.

Times were not overall easier for everyone under segregation. You're just looking at history through a white lens.

Only white men, though. They, as a cohort, definitely had it easy like no one else. Particularly straight able-bodied Christians.

Your comment makes sweeping generalizations about boomers as if they all had it easy. I want to remind people that this really only applied to a select group of specially elevated boomers. A white man could have what you say, good fucking luck if you were a Black woman though.

I have no idea what you're even trying to say.

This thread is a circle jerk about how boomers had it easy. I just wanted to remind people that it was only the white ones that had it easy, and in particular, the able-bodied straight Christian men.

I believe that Black boomers didn't have everything handed to them like white boomers, among other oppressed groups.

Times are easy or hard depending on who you are and your place in class society.

Even younger boomers had a decent chance of getting a job that you could raise a family with just a high school degree and older ones could be pretty successful.

Read this very carefully. Do you think this applied to Black people in 1960?

Not all boomers are white.

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