Depends on what color your skin was.
“The 1950’s weren’t so bad, my friend.
Depends on what color your skin was.”
I’ll take 1954 all over again. The good _and_ the bad.
And no apologies.
Sorry if this offends anyone...
- John
“Depends on what color your skin was.”
The 1950s still were not so bad. While my wife was a little girl in the Soviet Union she would cry about how badly Blacks were treated in the United States. But Blacks had more civile rights in the Jim Crow South than Soviet high Communist Party members had.
Blacks in the 1950 South were free to...
1. Leave the South to seek opportunity elsewhere (many did)
2. Own their own homes and land with low property taxes (many did)
3. Own guns to protect their lives and property (many did)
4. Attend Southern medical schools for Blacks (many did and the first Black female had already been accepted to the University of Arkansas Medical School)
5. Attend any of a great number of colleges (many did)
6. Vote in multi-party elections (many did)
Take your skin color comments back to Russia.
Some perspective:
30% of black men in US will go to jail
Gary Younge in New York
August 2003
Black men born in the United States in 2001 will have a one in three chance of going to prison during their lifetime if current trends continue, according to a report by the US justice department.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/19/usa.garyyounge
In 2005, 69.5 percent of all births to non-Hispanic black women, 63.3 percent of births of American Indian or Alaskan native woman, and 47.9 percent of births to Hispanic women occurred outside of marriage, compared with 25.4 percent for non-Hispanic white women and 16.2 percent for Asian or Pacific Islander women (preliminary estimates)
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/75UnmarriedBirths.cfm
You mean if you were black? Before drugs and welfare destroyed the intact black family? I guess you are right.