Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The opening weeks of Star Wars, fans lined up around the block, many seeing it again and again and again.
Sister took me when I was 6. All I remember was eating lunch in the breakfast room, parents asking, “WELL? How was it?!” “OK I guess.” LOL, was not impressed in the moment, turned into a fairly rabid fan for a couple of decades.
NYC blackout was a couple of months later. Not that I had a clue what was happening, but it was all over the news. My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could, but I remember mom commenting on the rioting, “Oh, those BUH-LACKS!”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
that’s incredibly self aware for the day.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It really was a lesson! Bear in mind, I grew up on shows like All in the Family and The Jefferson’s, featuring bigots as the main characters, and they were always shown to be assholes in every episode. So ham-fisted it’s hard to watch now. :) I grew up on WOKE shows like the Electric Company and Sesame Street. The 70s and forward were, “Be a racist, better keep a fucking lid on it.”
My parents lived in Selma, AL when King marched through. They had “mammies” to raise their girls. Strange times I missed.