Back in 1952 in my world May 1st was the day I got to wear a pink dress with a white organdy apron and dance around a pole. The next year I was in junior high in another school and don’t recall May 1st in my part of the country anything other than the 1st of May. We weren’t too much into any socialist or communist agenda in our part of Kansas
According to the leftists, you were displaying your “White privilege” in a racist society while you listened to Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads.
I don’t think the word privileged existed in our vocabulary back then. We had a two acre garden which always needed hoeing or weeding. Gathering eggs, milking one of our cows and “slopping the hogs” were my regular chores every morning before I went to school. But these were the same things all the kids did. It’s really hard to imagine kids today doing what we considered to be normal activities and responsibilities. I never will forget my mother’s reaction to Elvis singing “Blue Suede Shoes” when she came home early one day and I was playing it on the radio.
One thing I do see in my youngest grandson though is that he is much more politically savvy than my generation was.