One of the weirdest trends on modernity is this constant rose tinted glasses cycle. For example: one of the biggest tropes repeated ad hominem is “racism didn’t exist in the 90s”.
Bullshit, the 90s simply didn’t have access to the internet and was overwhelmingly dictated by the TV. The TV showed happy diversity so that’s what’s inscribed in everyone’s brains.
Let’s do a checklist of racial diversity in the 90s
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WTC bombing
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Rodney King riots
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Crown heights riots
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Million man march/ Nation of Islam
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Largest spike of “gang violence” which was dominated by blacks and Hispanics
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H1Bs
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Immigration largest driver of population growth
This was a time of delusion for boomers to pretend that magic soil was real while our jobs were being primed to be shipped overseas and the rest flooded with migrants. People simply refuse to admit nothing was different because the white population at the time still was enough of a majority for “White liberalism” to control the narrative. People blame Obama but he was just the end result of race blindness gone wrong, not the progenitor.
1990 was peak black violence in NYC, with 2245 murders that year. The early 1990s was the peak of the black violence wave that started to build in the 1960s.
Anyone who lived near black majority areas in the 1990s knows that the 1990s was not this race reltions nirvanah that everyone remembers.
What everyone remembers in the 1990s was the height of majority White USA.