What is it with GEN X Whites pretending the 90s was a utopia of Race relations?

[frush11]

90s wasn't like that. We barely associated with each other. It was straight social segregation, especially in schools. White kids barely associated with Blacks, and vice versa. Most off them listen to Rock, we didn't.

For most part, we avoided them, they avoided us. Eminem, and the death of Rock music in the mainstream changed a lot of things

 

[frush11]

I did think it was dead and those whites I grew up with would be the ones to really stamp out racism...but sadly pretty much all those guys became MAGA or that secretly racist liberal type. But I definitely thought once their grandparents and older parents died off that white ppl would put all that racist shyt aside. But the country went backwards, not just white ppl, the Entire country .

Why would they stamp out something that always put them in the Winning position?

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Be a nerdy breh in the 90s
You was getting it from all sides
You ain’t black enough-black folks
Black people don’t do that or listen to that type of music-white folks
You watching our cartoons-Asians
Indians were a non factor and still are in my social circle
Never gave a fukk about them
But this was my full experience even until sophomore year of college
It’s cap all around

 

[JasoRockStar]

Ah yes, because the major talking point of Rodney King beating and the LA Riots of 1992 totally wasn’t about the rampant racism the LAPD exhibited in regard to black people.

I’m pretty James Byrd would love to hear about this wonderful racial harmony they had in the 90s.

 

[The Burger King]

Breh they’re fukking CACs, they’ve always been delusional and disingenuous

 

[Kingshango]

One of, if not THE most prolific moment in the 90s was race related.

 

[ThatTruth777]

Off the top of my head. Amadou Diallo, James Byrd Jr, Rodney King and the riots, OJ trial reactions, etc..

 

[Michael's Black Son]

CAC revisionist bullshǐt rhetoric and anyone born in at least 1980 could easily defuse these hot takes.

The ghosts of OJ Simpson and Rodney King could say a thing or two about 90s racism — and that’s just in the state of California alone

 

[I Really Mean It]

maybe it was because i was in cambridge, regarded by many as the most progressive city in the country, but i don’t recall experiencing the same tension with whites during the 90s that i do now.

obviously, racism was a problem then, but my experiences with it weren’t as pronounced. it’s likely because i wasn’t as conscious during that period, so i wasn’t as acutely aware of its manifestations as i am now.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

There was no social media, and the things they said behind closed doors were unknown. Now, everyone has access to other people’s thoughts. They can’t handle the pushback.

 

[Savvir]

maybe it was because i was in cambridge, regarded by many as the most progressive city in the country, but i don’t recall experiencing the same tension with whites during the 90s that i do now.

my relations with whites were different back then.

that was before a black man became president...

then even the "non-racist" started realizing their superiority/control was being challenged....

 

[Biscayne]

As a black tether millennial, I’m gonna do what millennials do and speak outside my scope of knowledge as if I’m a professor. But I figure white GenXers who went to ice cube NOI-esque concerts back in the day, and sat through him calling white ppl the devil(cave bytch) fancied themselves as CACs who “solved the racism problem”. The same CACs who saw ECW wrestler New Jack, give props to OJ, and still remained a fan of his, I’m sure these GenX Cacs fancy themselves as being “advanced” for their perceived tolerance of black radicalism.

As if black Americans haven’t had to sit through decades and decades of anti black American propaganda and racism with a smile. As if we tethers haven’t had to sit through decades of colonialisms anti black propaganda.

 

[zayk35]

Why would they stamp out something that always put them in the Winning position?

I get what you're saying, but I'm talking from my personal perspective as a youngster, when I had no grasp of actual issues I was 8 yrs old when I moved into a white neighborhood in 1986. Those kids at that time was like "hey there's a new kid, come play" and next thing ya know we was all tight and race was never an issue. They could come to my house any time as well as I could be in there house and it wasn't nothing. The whole neighborhood was like that. Even our parents got along and everything.

 

[Paper Boi]

Gen X in general is filled with dummies.

but chill breh they had a wu-tang hoodie and produce a tribe called quest docs!

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

It wasn't this utopia some older white people seem to believe it was but without the 24 hour news cycle and social media it could definitely be out of sight out of mind. As a child I and many other poor little black kids didn't have much association with white people besides a few of our teachers and I never had any issues with them. As for older adults you could smile in someone's face publicly and shyt on them privately without anyone ever being the wiser. Despite there being a number of major racial flashpoints in the 90s, these events couldn't be mined for outrage and partisan engagement.

Prolonged visible divisions (more political than racial) in this country manifested during the Bush years coinciding with the rise of the Internet and the 24 hour news cycle. Obama becoming President during the beginning of the social media era brought racial tensions to the fore in ways that hadn't been seen in decades and it has just gotten progressively worse.