What was race relations like in the 90s?
Was there a lot of tension in your experience?
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The OJ Simpson trial certainly didn't help.
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The correct phrase there would be "What were..."
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They were a lot better, but thanks to Obummer, the Woke Morons, and the Radical Marxists on the Left and in Burn Loot Murder, they're worse now.
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I remember black people were more talented like Ellen Cleghorne on SNL.
shareNot countrywide, not like now. But I've been watching Hill Street Blues, a cop show from the 80s, and they were saying the same things people say today, same complaints about cops, same complaints about black culture. There are race issues but we can't confront them because too many groups (politicians, activists, foreign govts, churches, media) benefit from division and controversy. And many of our citizens have taken sides (joined a tribe) and are only interested in fighting with the opposite tribe, they have no goals. I ask people all the time, what does victory look like, and they look at me like I'm crazy because it never occurred to them that there should be an end goal.
shareRather than better or worse, I just remember it being different.
Race was a touchier subject, so public discourse regarding it wasn't as common and prevalent as it is now. Open racism was a lot more permissible; I don't think many people would've spoken up if someone made a racist comment to another person in public. Racist language/terms were used pretty casually because, for kids at the time anyway, POC were presented in media as a trend. To add to that, POC were a lot more visible and more varied in the entertainment industry, and you could support them and enjoy their work - or not support them and dislike their work - without being categorized in any way. A future POC president was pretty unimaginable.
Overall, there was less division, less labeling and less categorizing of people, a lot less A versus B if you will.
Less labeling and categorizing, for sure.
shareRight? But that would probably apply to everything regarding identity.
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sharePeople didn't label or categorize their identity back then as much as they do now. I'd say they over-categorize now.
shareI was agreeing with you about that. For a generation that decries labeling, Jr Millennials and Zoomers are also obsessed with labeling everyone.
shareYeah, for sure. I was listening to someone describe gender fluidity recently, and I was kinda thinking, we used to call this just being a person. We didn't ascribe a label or a fashion sense to it.
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