are yall :mjpls: @ white people who are fascinated with the 50's/60's?

[TL15]

How is that any different then people being fascinated with the 80's and 90's?! I think people tend to hold on to things they loved when they were young. Everybody will have an era that they came up in and are still fond of. And as far as Black people in the 50's, yeah I'm sure they hated the racial shyt, but I'm sure there were plenty of things that were worthwhile in their lives if they made it through.

Well it’s a little different because the country was segregated

In the 90s I asked my Grandpa how the 50s were and he said it was terrible to serve in the military and get treated like shyt. He hated the time period

 

[stave]

"simpler times"

"when you could call a spade a spade and people didn't get offended over it"

 

[Phantum]

Any old cac that longs for "the good old days". Good for who exactly?

 

[Rottweiler]

"It was a more simple time."

"I feel like I was born in the wrong decade."

"The good ol days."

 

[Geek Nasty]

People think of it as the era before the US lost it's "innocence" before the Vietnam war. A fraudulent nostalgia trip

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

How is that any different then people being fascinated with the 80's and 90's?! I think people tend to hold on to things they loved when they were young. Everybody will have an era that they came up in and are still fond of. And as far as Black people in the 50's, yeah I'm sure they hated the racial shyt, but I'm sure there were plenty of things that were worthwhile in their lives if they made it through.

I don't think OP was referring to older generations who lived it. Or at least I don't think he was ? There are people, esp women, in their 20s, 30s and 40s who are absolutely infatuated with that era. They'll throw parties and shyt and get dressed like how people from that era dressed. I find it weird and lame, personally.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

I've talked to plenty of old Black folks in my fam and many of them reminisce of those times too yall act like it was all bad 24/7 but the truth is it's probably like today (good and bad), some of yall nikkas act like nothing changed and we still living in the 1950s anyways

 

[African Peasant]

Different segments of the white population love it for different reasons. You can't just summarize it with racism.

Hipsters love it for the aesthetics and the fun: the music, the drive-thru, drive in, etc. It was also the birth of something you love: mass consumerism.

Middle class loves it for its and birth and boom: the house, the two kids and the fence

Poor white loves it because it was before the de-industrialization

Racists love of because of segregation

Conservatives love it because it was before the sexual revolution of the 60's

etc

But white people are not the only ones who love it, some old black also love it.

The black youth don't like it because the only thing they know about it is segregation.

It was a certain idea of America, even though it was short. Some will even say it was an illusion.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Such a shytty time and era

Same with those europen, miedeval times and ages as well.

 

[VertigoKnight]

People knew less then, of course, that would be seen as good.

No internet, no social media, the only news that mattered would be in your general area.

The modern people who are obsessed with it are searching for a nostalgia that probably never existed.

 

[MikeyC]

No, I like style from 1900-1960's.

From hopsack suits to rockabilly. You forget, black people wore the same shyt.

For example, I like how chaplin dressed:

Modern day: Paul Harnden

Someone with this:

as an avi, pining for the " Good Ol' Days"?

 

[newworldafro]

It was the era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Immigration Act of 1965 ..... simpler times .


Humans have an instinct to be among their own. These are just facts, so the white American world within two decades would be a more diverse, and 20 more years (as in now) whole states be non-majority white.

Definitely simpler in terms of racial diversity.