I avoided many types of media like the news because I learned real early how to spot emotional manipulation. So my experience seems to contradict your view, since I believe I got to have the colorblind thing.
I think most people knew not to trust it fully, but it was their only access to the greater world so they had to filter it to some extent. Think of your angry boomer dad watching Fox every night, complaining about things he knows are mostly lies but still talks about to his buddies tomorrow.
Get those socjus college kids to work a summer alongside some hood rats and they'll learn quick
Yeah its also hugely dependent on your area of the world. Mine was the Deep South Louisiana with a huge population of Blacks AND Indians literally intermixed. Your first time as a child getting screamed at by an angry black woman at McDonalds for daring to want to order something leaves a mark on everyone there. And those examples just add up. You can't NOT think about race because anytime you walk down the street you might hear a drawn out "whiiiiite boyyy" and a solid fear for your safety kicks in. You learn what streets the cops won't even come look for you on, and what Denny's you are allowed to eat at peacefully.
So a lot of people wouldn't have reason to learn to distrust the media preaching its colorblindness because they never had those experiences early on.
The 90s were the peak of the "Gangster Rap" movement, with massive events like the Tupac and Biggie murders (and their entire careers) being quite huge.
I think its a bit of a stretch to say they were unaware of what was going on in the ghettos. Possible they thought it a quaint little amusement instead of a real problem, however.
I think most people knew not to trust it fully, but it was their only access to the greater world so they had to filter it to some extent. Think of your angry boomer dad watching Fox every night, complaining about things he knows are mostly lies but still talks about to his buddies tomorrow.
Yeah its also hugely dependent on your area of the world. Mine was the Deep South Louisiana with a huge population of Blacks AND Indians literally intermixed. Your first time as a child getting screamed at by an angry black woman at McDonalds for daring to want to order something leaves a mark on everyone there. And those examples just add up. You can't NOT think about race because anytime you walk down the street you might hear a drawn out "whiiiiite boyyy" and a solid fear for your safety kicks in. You learn what streets the cops won't even come look for you on, and what Denny's you are allowed to eat at peacefully.
So a lot of people wouldn't have reason to learn to distrust the media preaching its colorblindness because they never had those experiences early on.
The 90s were the peak of the "Gangster Rap" movement, with massive events like the Tupac and Biggie murders (and their entire careers) being quite huge.
I think its a bit of a stretch to say they were unaware of what was going on in the ghettos. Possible they thought it a quaint little amusement instead of a real problem, however.