could you achieve the american dream during the us golden age (1950s) if you were brown
>>18006068In 1950, only 9% of Black children lived in a household without their father.
>>18006068let's discuss the American dream that /pol/ jerks off to>alcoholic war PTSD dad beats the shit out of his wife for not making his favorite Jell-O Salad>goes to work in the morning and punches a random black guy in the face with no consequences>if the black guy did same to him he'd get 30 years in prison>the mom is on pills and is fucking the paper delivery boy>the son was molested by the parish priest but can't tell anyone because it would be bad for the community
Only with exceptional skills.
Where? In rural Mississippi, or a big city in the north? Detroit in the 1950s looked pretty good for a black man. The auto industry was booming and job restrictions were falling, de facto segregation was ending and houses outside the slums were available as more whites moved to the suburbs, there was representation in government and other institutions, and a general sense of progress and optimism. All this was a mirage before the 60s riots and economic cratering out of blue collar jobs but compared to what came before it was a good time for all Americans after years of depression and war.
The "American Golden age of the 1950s" has always been an ideal fantasy.Especially among conservatives, who like to think it was some time of libertarian independence. The reality was that taxation was at an all time high; large companies practiced "corporate welfare"; unions were the largest; and certain laws limited the scope of where and how a company could headquarter itself.For brown/black people, it was certainly better than the past, but there were still big hurdles, especially in the south, where white hicks still perceived themselves as better.
>>18006068My grandpa did so yeah. He was also a migrant.
>>18006169Nigger
>>18006340>for brown/black peopleWho cares?
>>18006340>The reality was that taxation was at an all time highit's as if the government had to pay down its debts from two wars
>>18006366Probably not you, but Im sure a lot of black/brown people cared? >>18006370That's not why tho. A near economic collapse and sensible ideas about how a business should operate all started before the 2nd war.
>>18006381>black/brown>peopleNo
>>18006068Plenty of browns did
>>18006381Thankfully they are all natural born civil rights activists. Even while working a normal job and even just interacting with them while they are working at a Dunkin Donuts.
>>18006370And they didn't. The U.S has been in debt since World War 1.
>>18006381>sensible ideas about how a business should operateExploiting the workers and sending the money they generate to rich people?
>1950s>US "Golden Age"LMAO!Maybe earlier in the decade but once all the wartime contracts dried up, a lot of people ended up being out of work by the mid-late 50s, resulting in the Eisenhower Recession. While a lot of blacks did manage to find work, the recession disproportionately effected blacks, since blacks often relied on government work in sectors like manufacturing that were particularly hit hard when those contracts ended. Some would argue that was one of the impetus' for the Space Race in the late 50s through to the 1960s was to give aerospace and defense contractors an excuse to receive government contracts in peacetime
>>18006396You will never have a real ethnostate.
>>18006370What debts? Everyone else was indebted to us. The post-war boom was really only possible because America's manufacturing base was the only one left untouched. Europeans took out a lot of credit on loans. I think the UK only finished paying it back in the 2000s.
>>18006493NTA but the National Debt did peak in the postwar era
>>18006169This is all just cringe Reddit talking points/pol/tards just think the 50s was some prosperous time for white puritans. You have to bring up the fact that there were several race riots in the 50s, that teenagers would often get high on methamphetamines being sold as weight loss medicine, that there was a recession, that McNamara, before flubbing Vietnam, was busy ruining Ford with the $4 billion failure known as the Edsel. Under any real scrutiny the Norman Rockwell depiction of this decade is quickly eroded
