My mother was born in the very early 50’s. She participated in Civil Rights activism. She’d be the first to tell you that a lot of people were racist and bigoted back then and that they were wrong… including some of the kindest members of her family while growing up. Ignorance has long been a convenient excuse for that generation and not much more. Reagan was straight up racist, so was the music industry, so was the way the music industry manufactured the phenomenon of Elvis, and so are a lot of people today. They could have known better at any point between now and then. Most of them didn’t and don’t want to. Personally, I’m sick of hearing the excuses.
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