Was the 70s-80s the GOAT era for black men?

[Brolic]

Everything was affordable. You could get a job, nice car, and a house without a degree. An average blue collar black man could marry a decent/beautiful looking woman and she’d be content with life.

Fast forward to today. Most brehs under 35 are living in apartments or with roommates. Obese single mothers are talking about they need 6 figure earners. And the majority of women are obsessed with zodiac signs, owning businesses, brunch, and traveling.

 

[Shadow King]

Everything you said is mainly men in general. For us specifically, 70s is most of the country still adjusting to or resisting the triumph of the Civil Rights era so nah.

Probably 80s and moreso 90s.

 

[CHICAGO]

90S/ EARLY 2000S

nikkaS WERE GETTING PAPER,
BECOMING MAINSTREAM,
shyt WASNT SUPER EXPENSIVE YET,
AND THERE WASNT ANY SOCIAL MEDIA







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[Cloutius Maximus]

1985-2005 is the sweet spot

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Inflation in the 70's was in the double digits and on top of that you had a rise of urban crime, drug addiction and the highest rate of domestic terrorism.

but at least the music phenomenal

 

[Child_Of_God]

We barely had civil rights in the 70’s and that was the era in which things started going downhill for us if we being honest. Don’t even get me started on the 80’s aka the crack and high murder era.

 

[TEH]

Something something revisionist history 70’s 80’s something something

Fixed

 

[MyApps]

The 70s was actually kinda bad.

Rise of drugs and gangs, stagflation economy, race relations still bad, etc.

It wasn't until mid 80s to 2000s before things were on the up and up.

 

[jay83]

I def believe if every black soldier got the GI bill from WW2 and if crack didn’t hit our neighborhoods we would be in a much much better status currently.

 

[richaveli83]

I def believe if every black soldier got the GI bill from WW2 and if crack didn’t hit our neighborhoods we would be in a much much better status currently.

Yep. The GI Bill basically built the (white)middle class in this country. Suburbs were being built so for the first time a good chunk of (white)people could own homes, go to college, etc. Black people were left out.

Don't get me started on crack. It really did fukk up a whole generation and we haven't really recovered.