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“Forgetting” segregation

Posted on January 12, 2014 | 5 comments

I’m sure most of us get email forwardings at one time or another, especially from low-IT relatives and, sometimes, from old friends. They tend to be smarmy at best, ridiculous at worst, and deserve to be deleted as soon as possible.

But the recent forwarding of 1950s-early 60s nostalgia pieces for Baby Boomers are more than ridiculous. They also are dishonest. One I got recently was all hymns to early rock-n-roll songs and TV shows, with kitschy artwork of store fronts and ’57 Chevies in pastel colors—all minus one historical feature.

Nowhere in the windows of those Norman Rockwell stores was the then-ubiquitous sign: Whites Only.

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1950’s nostalgia

Posted on May 13, 2010 | Comments Off on 1950’s nostalgia

Much as I like Mike Cox’s books, I can’t resist skewering his paean to the 1950s:

“…so many of us who were there tend to look back at the 1950s as an idyllic time. You know. Safe streets. No TAKS tests or whatever they’re called now. Homemade Halloween candy. Life in the suburbs, at least in Austin, Texas, USA was generally good.”

Yep. Back when women, the minorities, the gays and the disabled knew their place. And it wasn’t in your face. And the bums that now stand begging on every street corner were rousted and told to move along.

But even some of us white males felt stultified and repressed.

Via Texas BookShelf.

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