Stop Blaming The Boomers

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[–]negrogreBeing black is anti-white 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Being concentrated in the south does not constitute barely existing, especially when blacks have been moving to cities (and whites out of them) since before the great war. Boomers aren't blameless but weren't really the ones in power pushing (or conceding to) these societal changes. If you could blame boomers you should blame silents even more.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Being concentrated in the south does not constitute barely existing, especially when blacks have been moving to cities (and whites out of them) since before the great war.

You're overexaggerating their impact since America was still a majority white country, and defacto segregation was the law until at least 1967. I would even extend this date farther because IQ testing was also still allowed in the workplace until it got overturned in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

And even then, if Boomers knew Blacks existed in their country, why would that not motivate them to try and change the politics sooner?

It's literally the reason Conservativism gets mocked. They haven't Conserved "demographics" in decades. Almost every Republican we've seen today still favors [legal] immigration, wants more diversity, and has never tried to repeal the Civil Rights Act. There's no excuses.

[–]negrogreBeing black is anti-white 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Probably because of what OP described: they were likely unaware of the legislation being passed that would ultimately change demographics. By the time manufacturing jobs were being outsourced out of country, it was too late.