Uh huh, and we still have poverty in this “modern” country. I think it really galls Leftist/Comunist/Marxist types who watched their beloved Soviet Union die. What to do with our Castro and Che posters? Will people lose interest in the latest issue of Socialist Worker?
Please. I watched as people, infected by the above, gradually became ruder and cruder from the 1970s on. It was the same radical anarchist nutcases who decided the country was waaaaaay too functional for them. “Let it all hang out, man.”
People had a lot more respect for each other. Growing up in Detroit in that time period, I had no fear or anomosity toward black people. I admired the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. I admired President Johnson for starting the War on Poverty.
But no, this was the time when people said hello to each other and actually helped each other with no money changing hands. It was pretty common for my dad to be out front, working on the family car, and at least one or two neighbors would come by to chat. In one case, he was without a necessary tool, a neighbor had it and let him use it. In another case, he was having a hard time figuring out how a part was supposed to go in. A neighbor guided him through it. No charge. Glad to help. That mattered. That was being a neighbor.
And that is what I’m talking about. That and the neighbor lady who had a bad toothache could drop her daughter off at my parent’s house while she went to the dentist and it was no big deal. Glad to help.
Peace,
Ed
The post was referring to a
nation, not to your own extremely limited experience. Anyone who couldn’t see that U.S. citizens were very disrespectful during the 50s and 60s is blind or does not want to see the truth. But as you have brought up your personal experience, allow me to do the same:
Respect? Do you actually believe that? Then please explain to me why I was the only person to sit down next to a well-dressed black gentleman who was sitting all alone on a bus while people were standing? Was it respectful for those people to treat that man as though he was disgusting? Just because he had more melanin in his skin?
Was it respect that caused the bus driver to drive past this gentleman’s stop and then laugh and laugh when the man had to get off the bus and run back to where he was trying to go?
Was it respect that several of the people on the bus laughed with the bus driver?
Was it respect when numerous white persons yelled out “2,4,6,8, we’re not gonna integrate!!” over and over as a small black
child walked alone to a school where no other students would even show up?
Was it respect that led to the brutal murder of three civil rights workers? Was it respect that caused the KKK to lynch blacks?
Was it respect that blacks were FORCED to sit in the back of the bus? Was it respect that blacks couldn’t eat at lunch counters frequented by white people?
Did that man I mentioned in another post show respect to my sister when he asked her if she wanted to be ****** and caused her to run away in fear and cry all the way home?
I could write page after page, but honest to God, I am so, so, so tired of this pipe dream you insist on holding onto like some sort of idol. It wasn’t that way, Ed. There was no more respect then than there is now.
Not one bit more. You’ve closed your eyes and put your hands against your ears and you’re yelling “I can’t hear you!!” and that doesn’t change anything.
There has been a lack of respect through the entire history of the world. People killed people for no good reason. It even happened to Jesus. Was that respect? Oh, wait, I guess that doesn’t fall in your time frame. Well, OK, we’ll let that one slide.
And I forgot: You were there and you saw it so that is the way it must have been. Forget the murders, the lynchings, the segregation, the calling of black people n******. It couldn’t have happened because you were there and you would have known.
Yeah, real respectful.
