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How do you know the guy hung and the one being attacked by the dog didn't commit a crime? Would you rather have it nowadays where murderers sit on death row for 30 years? I think quick and efficient was better.
Honestly, I would rather have it so only Capital crimes get people jailed and they can rot there until they die.
I guess you can imagine they were in the hundreds if you want and that will justify your beliefs.
I just posted statistics that were gathered which showed 2 lynchings in 1950..one Black and one White.
Guess it goes against people's ideas of what the 50's were like.
History classes are very biased and many people today have inaccurate views of US history.
Two words in response to the bold: Jim Crow. For blacks, that's what the 50s were like.
Well obviously it was better than it was back then. It still wasn't a paradise for the average black American though.
In the south, no but it was better for them in the north.
There were Blacks in my classes in NYC during the 60's when I went to school.
We used to go to Florida for vacation. With 5 kids my mother always had us go to the back of the bus..I guess to keep an eye on us.
Well in Miami as we're getting on the bus my mother gives her usual "To the back" and the bus driver told her that White people didn't sit in the back of the bus. Being a loud New Yorker my mother said "this White person does" and we all went to the back of the bus.
I didn't know what that was all about until years and years later.
At least you admit that there is a leftist handbook. There are at least two of them: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. There is another called After the Ball which is a blueprint for how the homosexual movement has achieved success in the U.S.
Ah, yes, the wonderful, mythical '50s. Great time to be a white Christian male. As a woman, though, my only choices for a career were a teacher or a nurse--and then only until I found a good man and stayed home to have babies and clean the house.
Nope, I don't miss that at all.
Exactly! Like Old Gringo, I lived it, too.
The values of folks back in the 1950s and early 1960s were really great:
it was all right for a husband to cheat on his wife;
it was all right for a husband to be beat his wife;
it was all right for parents to beat their kid as long as the kid didn't die;
it was all right for a businessman to force his female employees to have sex;
it was all right to be a drunk as long as you did it privately;
it was all right to drive drunk, and killing or maiming somebody while doing so got you a slap on the wrist;
it was all right for companies to dump toxic waste into rivers and streams or release them into the air;
it was all right for employers to ignore employee safety;
it was all right for farmers to indiscriminately use pesticides on crops;
it was all right for cities and towns to dump untreated sewage into steams and lakes;
it was all right for smokers to puff away anywhere at any time;
it was all right to discriminate not only against blacks and/or Latinos, but also against Jews and Catholics.
[quote=KonaldDuth;42584968]Do you ever wonder what it was like when we had common values, common religion, a real culture?
A society run by white men where everyone else was inferior. No thanks. Besides, you have no idea what went on behind closed doors. There was probably more domestic violence because women had no voice and just had to accept it. And discipline for kids were beatings.
At least you admit that there is a leftist handbook. There are at least two of them: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. There is another called After the Ball which is a blueprint for how the homosexual movement has achieved success in the U.S.
Never heard of After the Ball but other 2 I have. I own the protocols. Its sitting on my bookshelf. Never read the other one.
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