20 Rarely Seen Photos Of America In The 1950’s Show How Different Life Was Before

Some people say "values of the past" in terms of kids respecting their elders (like they use to), the value of putting family first (like they use to), the value of hard work (work ethics are dying), the value of "please, thank you, no sir, yes mam" (not common anymore)................. No One I know values racism when they say "past values" ..... **(eye-roll)**

No this one one set of values of one set of people from the past. Those people are dying out and a better set of values are being instilled, however, there were some values that we can't ignore simply because they were from the same time. This value can be destroyed, and I will be happy to see racism go, but not all values were racism related.

Do you mean the young woman's dress or the little girl's dress?

Probably waiting for Dad to bring the car around

Astonishing that it used to happen not so long ago

Yes, crochet lady, but they were allowed to enter Starbucks by the same door as everyone else, so things have undoubtedly changed. Irene did not say there are no problems left to solve.

Are you being sarcastic? A black kid got shot at the other day for ringing someone's door bell to ask for directions and two men were taken out of a Starbucks in handcuffs for sitting while black. I used to shop at a boutique all the time, they assumed I was white. One day I took my 4 year old nephew with me who is obviously black and all of a sudden I have a security escort through the store, that had never happened before. Things have NOT changed.

Crocht lady.....why are you focusing on just black people that get shot, like it doesn't happen many more times over to non-blacks? Why are you pigeon-holing violence like it doesn't happen to everyone? Narrow-minded. You use this one story as a reference, I can post 50 more that AREN'T black. please, stop being a victim.

After the Civil War when black Americans were freed (after almost two hundred years) the white controlled state legislatures enacted the "Jim Crow Laws" which established apartheid in the U.S. So, for the next hundred years or so Americans with skin pigmentation the white people didn't like were treated worse than second class citizens. Hence the "colored entrance", and Lynchings and inferior schools and services, and on and on. We thought those days were gone, but now with Trump we've seen a resurgence of those horrid beliefs.

The white slave owners relatives have never gotten past this attitude. Still goes on today. They think blacks are less than an animal, and need to be treated even worse than an animal. We have a shameful history, it does still go on, just more subtle because they can't use signs.

Do you see the sign above their heads? Black people had to use a different entrance to the whites, had to sit in a seperate area, use seperate toilets, because a lot of the white folks were dumb and ignorant and thought that black people were inferior and should be kept in their place. Does that help?

Because there should never have been separate entrances for black people - they were treated as second class citizens, and often as if they were not people at all.

They used to segregate black and white people (like in South Africa). Black people were seen as sub-human, dirty and stupid.

But this isn't something that is new...it's also not "special" treatment. I see that English is not your first language so maybe the translation isn't coming through properly but it looks like you're trying to say that now everyone wants special treatment if they're different instead of equal treatment as those depicted above deserved. The fact is that homosexuals, women, African Americans, etc. Everyone deserves to be treated equally but they're not and therefore have to fight for that right. The people who are actually the whiners are the ones who can't accept the ones who make the ripples in the pond and destroy their little Ozzy and Harriet Twilight Zone black and white (literally) world where women greet men at the door with a martini and black people are kept in their places. THEY are the whiners but they can't stand anyone who doesn't think the same as them so they do nothing but call other people names like children on a playground.

You are misinformed my dear, Africa was one of the largest slave trading countries even before Columbus arrived.They were selling their own amongst each other and to other countries long before Columbus arrived. As a matter of fact, a majority of the slaves that were initially here within the first 15-20 years came with their masters overseas to the new world. Racism is not exclusive to the USA; nonetheless it is still inexcusable. Blame the British if you need someone to blame

He just turned 75 this weekend. Still going strong. :)

Auntie: wish him happy Birthday!

The book is better than the movie.

There's also a movie

What turmoil?

Jill Stein for the win.

In addition, the word "slave" comes from the word "Slav", meaning Slavic. Slavs were commonly enslaved during the Middle Ages.

Jews were slaves in the Nazi camps of World War 2.

Hebrews were also enslaved in Egypt. People also mistakenly think that slavery is in the past. The present day Arab slave trade of Africans continues to exist.

Does this make the USA and SouthAfrica less guilty? Sounds like you are trying to make the USA look less bad. Cause you know, what you say it's true, but is also true that many other countries didn't do any of what you listed, so those who did are 100% guilty- especially when they call themselves The Land of the Free (the irony!)

This is the apologist's argument, it is weak.

When and were Jews were slaves?

I think of my freckles as a nuisance really. Makes my face look dirty or something, plus I'm so fair I basically can't be in the sun at all. Gah!