When I was in school I was friends with most of the black folks. There was never an issue of race and it was never brought up . We didn't know anything about racism because it was never brought up. The Liberals and the Democratic media are what's creating all this divide. Trump 2024
Truth. My mum wouldn't argue with the neighbours either when us kids were arguing. She said you end up falling out with your neighbours and the kids are playing together five minutes later and forgotten all about their grievances.
Yep! Brother now in late 40’s a few years ago met this guy at the bar from back in the day. his click and their click always fought at the club. They had a beer together. Dude asked what were we fighting about back then. Brother said I have no fucking clue. Only thing that happen to them back then was a few stitches, busted head or black eye. No one ever went to a funeral. You knuckled up, either give ass whopping or take one. Can’t do that shit today. Dudes are afraid of an ass whooping. Would rather spend their life in prison than lose a fight.
This video was beyond deprived of going mega viral, and I do genuinely mean that! This should be played in every school, and college campus, in every state.
lol I just saw a shirt with Gen z mocking Gen x , how we text with emojis and stuff like, do they have any idea how completely bland and anonymous they seem to us? Jfc
Except it didn’t destroy everyone’s life… it’s technology which allows for better communication. You’re starting to sound more and more like boomers each year that passes…
As a Gen X... he is absolutely right. I had friends in school that were black, Hispanic, and white. Today? I'm sad to say many of them have fallen victim to media driven hatred and stopped talking to me because of my political affiliations. So this stuff does seep into Gen X, it just didn't happen to us in high school and our early 20's.
1980’s and 90’s Person 1: “You a republican, or democrat”? 🙂 Person 2: “well I’m a republican”🤙 Person 1: “hell yeah I’m a democrat.. want to go get a beer and talk”?!😃 Person 2: “damn right I’ll buy the first round”! 🥳🍺🍺🍺
Born in 67.. We never had a race problem, everybody got alone unless they were an asshole like he said... We figured things out on our own. Social media and media news has divided people when we were never divided..
As a Gen-X guy from the UK, I 100% agree with the gentleman's experiences of his youth. I went to several high schools and had friends from many, many different backgrounds, was welcomed into their homes and they were likewise welcomed into my own. My parents as boomers believed in the ideas of MLK and to be racist was seen as bad and unkind, as a result, we weren't anti-racist, we were tolerant and sought to be open to making friends with folks of all backgrounds - hell, it was a pretty boring existence if you didn't! We were also thicker skinned, less prone to take offence like generations that followed us and crucially we were more open to risk taking and being outside - you know, where the world and other people are. For non-Gen Xers, the best image to describe our youths, was of 2 young kids cycling on a busy main road with lots of cars, 1 kid cycling and his friend hitching a ride on the back, no helmets, not lights and no high vis jackets - just freedom and adventure.
@@IndianaBonesexactly! I noticed our generation is suddenly coming into the light. I'm not sure why but I do know they won't be able to handle our answers
Gen X has had our heads in the sand for the past 10 years though, and have not been able to change the cultural discussion channels back to good sense. We have also been platforming new versions of history that the Millennials wanted to be heard.
Except it didn’t destroy everyone’s life… it’s technology which allows for better communication. You’re starting to sound more and more like boomers each year that passes…
Honestly it’s always there, we just didn’t live in our emotions. Some calls you a slur… we fought it out. Then got up and went on with our lives. We didn’t live in Victimhood
Shut 2 of my best friends were girls I fought when I first met them, we hated each other, fought, the next day ate lunch and snuck around the back of the school and smoked cigarette together, in the smoking area of our school ! But we were best friends from that point on , actually they are the only 2 people I still talk to from high school , my husband too but he don’t count 😂 AND YES we had a smoking section of where we took our break after eating lunch 😂
I was born in 72 and didn’t have a black classmate until high school. During my childhood I enjoyed watching Fat Albert, Good Times, What’s happening etc. Now I purposely stay away from black entertainment because I’m sick of the constant “racism” bullshit.
It wasn't an issue with us because we all just hung out at school with each other and played outside together. We resolved our issues face to face (and sometimes with some punching here and there) but at the end of the day, we were friends.
Hell yes, spot on! There was no such thing. So many of our childhood shows are now considered "black programming". Uh, what" TV shows, were TV shows, people were people. All the kids in the neighborhood played together. Totally agree with this! We had a great childhood even with many hardships, we just learned to deal.
I’m gen X born and damn proud. We’re probably the last great generation that grew up without all this technology. I was born in July of ‘76 during the bicentennial. A 70’s baby, an 80’s child and a 90’s teen. I feel like I was born at just the right time and got to witness 3 of the greatest decades.
Nah!! I was born in 1968. I got to witness ALL of the 70s. But, after hearing my mom and her siblings (silent generation) talk about those times and then hear my grandparents (greatest generation) talk about life during and right after WWII, I think the one I like the best, the one I would love to live during, would be the 1940-1980. Beautiful time to be alive.
@@user-Danswife 1968, you’re the exact same age as my older brother. But I have to say I agree with you 100%. The generation that was around during WWII are and will always be the greatest generation ever. The men and women of that era were tough as nails. My Grandfather was a WWII vet and he was one tough old dude when I was a kid. He was such a badass, if he drank a pot of boiling water he would piss ice cubes. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the men that weren’t drafted first voluntarily enlisted in the military, while the women worked in the factories churning out military equipment to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. there will ever be another generation to have that kind of gumption and love for this great country of ours. This new generation is so brainwashed, most of them want to see our country destroyed. Ship them all to a communist country for a year and then see if they change their views.
As a gen x kid I was taught to speak up but expect to either get your ass beaten or fight. No one hides behind computer and just talk smack. ACCOUNTABILITY is what gen x knows. Our momma taught us that it’s always better for one crazy person to run their mouths than 2 at the same time. We just don’t care!
Part of the general pattern of neglect that we received from our Boomer parents meant that we were able to just hang out with other kids and be natural human beings together - and they forgot to tell us that we needed to hate each other because we were different. Now a lot of that had to do with the small farming town that I grew up in, too .. but imagine my surprise when I came to a big city, and found out that I was hated on account of my skin color! Morgan Freeman has it right: As soon as people stop making ethnicity an issue, it stops being an issue.
I lived on a road that had no street lights so my parents used the porch light rule. They even used that darn porch light to signal it was time for the "long goodbye" to end when my dates would drop me off at home. When that porch light blinked, I better be in before it blinked again!! 🤣
Preach! We didn’t have play dates and mommy and me dates and dates with moms and the kids! We went around the neighborhood knocked on doors and found out who was at home and not on punishment and thus could come out and play. Once we got together, we the children decided what we was gonna do based on what WE wanted to do. Who has a bike? well I got a bike but you just got a skateboard so that’s a’ight you hang onto the back of my bike- we gonna go over here and play in the woods. We gonna play stick ball or basketball or street hockey out in the middle street. Or we gonna go to the vacant lot and play. We didn’t have parents making our decisions FOR us. We learned from a young age to be able to make decisions and troubleshoot and come to conclusions and decisions together without adult intervention. We didn’t get butt hurt about stuff! As a matter of fact, if you were a sensitive child? Woe be onto you because you were an outcast just for being sensitive. We could be enemies one day and best friends the next. But universally? The neighborhood had each other’s back. It didn’t matter whether you was white, black, brown, red or yellow (or as my granny used to say purple with pink polkadots)- we were all in this together!
We seen race. .. I just think we were more about respect and morals of a person. We learned to live amongst each other. Now we seem to be going backwards in racism
I found out in my 40's that my dad hated the spanish speaking on Sesame Street. He kept his mouth shut my whole childhood because he wanted me to be better than him. That's the best he could do. It worked.
We didn’t all have Sesame Street. We grew up before cable and when the TV actually stopped broadcasting every night and went off the air. In rural WV we had limited stations that came in…my house only had 3 stations. I do remember Friday Night Videos before MTV.
This video has been around for a while, and it still remains to be my favorite on this topic. This dude has the genuine charisma to relate to almost anyone, and this should be played in every school and college campus in every state!
Gen X, 1967. I was fortunate to be in the first generation where our classes were racially mixed in my Texas hometown. We had about a third Hispanic, a third black, and a third white. Racism just seems ridiculous to me.
Yes, exactly! Gen X was the last generation of kids who grew up just having fun. We didn't have hate wars, we had neighborhood baseball games, bike rides to the park, later we'd all ride bikes to the arcade.
LOVE THIS!!!! Gen X… we just loved PEOPLE. We lived and loved the simple life. We saw someone needed help, we helped them. We saw someone needed encouragement, we cheered them on. We saw someone needed a shoulder to cry on, we listened. We did all this for each other because we cared for PEOPLE. Not certain races. But PEOPLE. WE STILL DO. Our generation doesn’t let social media, media, or other people change our minds or influence our hearts about people. Race doesn’t matter to us. PEOPLE DO!!! Be there for each other. Love each other. God Bless you ALL! ❤
I went home in Kindergarten crying to my my mom because I learned about MLK and the teacher told us that white and black people couldn't be friends because I was white and my best friend Roderick (my next door neighbor) was my best friend... this was in 1985 we had been best friends since the day we met and still can walk into each other's home here 37 years later...
...1985 ha? That must have been when this stupidity started where you couldn't be a part of another's culture or understand it. Certainly couldn't be besties, my God, cultural appropriation via friendship! 😲
@@user-Danswife yeah but it's only lefties (mainly the higher classed white Karens and privileged blacks who have never known hardship and you cant forget the racist blacks who were raised by hateful black single mothers) who actually believe in the cultural appropriation bullshit.
If there was racism, it was real, it was blatant and it was handled quickly, then dropped. Hands were thrown and then friendship or a semblance of it was hatched
1981, and boy am I glad I was born when I was. Hell, I wish could go back and do it again. My nephew couldn't believe some of the stuff my wife and her sister and myself were telling him about growing up when we did. I feel bad for his generation because they will never experience things like we did.
You got that shit. You know what I Miss the metal slides that we should go down and down on and sometimes a playground they make it so big that it's like a damn Fortress
Metal slides that were tall & most kids knew at least one kid who fell off the top...Not to mention the monkey bars & merry - go- round we would spin as hard as we could & we would hold on praying we weren't the one to fly off the damn thing.
This right here! The younger generation, the majority of them don’t understand “who let us off the hook”?!? There are a handful who understand why you don’t F with generation X. If we came in the house crying because so and so hit us or so and so called us a bad name? Our mamas didn’t care that that happened! They wanted to know two things: you want me to beat your ass if you stay in this house and did you fight back? Hundred percent guaranteed you was gonna get your ass whipped by staying in the house AND your ass whipped when your daddy got home cause you ain’t stand up for yourself OR elected to stay inside AND they was gonna send you outside to do that shit again until you stood up for yourself. I’m a girl, 1978 born and raised, and let me tell you both my mama and my daddy used to tell me if I threw the first punch? I was getting my ass whipped when I got home. But if someone else threw the first punch and I didn’t stand up for myself? I was getting my ass whipped AND put on punishment when I got home! My daddy used to say to me all the time “I didn’t raise no bully, but I sure as shit ain’t no pussy.”
When we had problems with each other, we settled it usually around 3pm in a parking lot. Important edit: My best friend ride or die friend is someone i beat to shit. 1993 Aloha Lanes parking lot, we both caught cracks from our parents when we got home. Miss those days.
@fatlarry1184 true story, but why is it whites are whites like there's no diversity amongst us. I'm a white gen X'er, and most of my white friend's parents didn't speak English at home. That's a diversity to me. There's diversity in itself when it's tough to communicate with your friend's parents, or your parents to communicate with their parents and such. As was the case with Italians, Germans, Macedonians, Russians, etc.
1970 here. Race wasn't an issue because we didn't make it an issue. That wasn't black Tylor, it was just Tylor. That wasn't white Doug, it was just Doug. If I didn't like you, it wasn't because you were black, brown, whatever. I just didn't like YOU. Most times our not liking each other was settled with a fight. After school, surrounded by a mob of kids shit went down. It wasn't pretty. But getting punched in the face a few times then seeing each other at school the next day you start to rethink why you didn't like someone. As long as you gave as good as you got most things were put to bed. We became cool. We were one step away from animals and it was awesome. LOL I'm white and to this day some of my best friends are black. Todays generation throws around the word racist like saying hello. You wouldn't have lasted a week in my youth. Because you would have called someone a racist and you'd have had a hail of white, black, brown fists raining down on you. If you didn't learn you'd get it again the next day and the day after that. Thats why when you start talking this shit most GenXers want to punch you in the face. Think of it like a reset button.
It was there. I delivered pizza's in high school. One of my deliveries a guy gave me a flyer for the local Klan and invited me to a local gathering. I balled it up in my car, tossed it out, thought it was weird but never thought about it much after.
We had Miami Vice, 48 hours, Leathal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, and even . . . The Cosby Show as our guide to race relations. None of that was forced and felt natural.
I was born in 1970. Instead of being raised by parents I was raised by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. I say this with emotion when I tell you how thankful I am to the both of them. I am an Anti-Racist because of them. I would also like to add that the 90's was the best decade when it comes to racism. You saw a lot more inter racial relationships then now or before. Then social media came and ruined everything.
Brooo you are dropping a big bomb of facts !!!! I hate social media because of this sick racism im a mixed kid makes it specially hard for people like me!! i am puerto rican and jamaican and my neighborhood was filled with mixed race couples people today would be so shocked i was born in 94 the last of the hip hop love era 😢
God Bless our Momma’s cause they weren’t coming down to the school to help us out of our problems. We made the problem and we had to deal with the consequences.
Lower end Gen Xer here 1969.. I would agree with most.. but as far as race! No you knew about White and Black strait up..the later part of Gen X is different! But for the most part yeah.. tough ass thick skinned generation.. Not Fragile!!!!
You nailed it my friend! I was born in 65, grew up in Chicago. Grammar school was a melting pot, Caucasians were the minority. 60% black, 25% Hispanic, the rest were Italian, Polish and Irish. More than half of my best friends were black, and I grew up where my boomer parents were against bussing (don’t get me wrong, I love them, but there they were subject to the crap before the civil rights movement, it’s what they were taught by their parents unfortunately … they are cool now). We didn’t care as kids. We were all different, but we got along just fine. That was true genX behavior. Then we moved to the burbs just before high school. Ratios were so different, I was in another world. Got into a fight my first day because the class bully called me an a**hole. I got up, and beat the you know what out of him in the middle of class. I had after school detention for a month for that. Then he picked on a black gal in my neighborhood. That did not end well when I saw it happen. Kicked his a** … after that, no problems. Just wanted to share, GenX is for everyone, inclusive, stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. I have zero tolerance for bigotry, however I think DEI has gone a bit too far these days.
You hung out with kids that contributed something useful to your mob. Some had field medic skills, some had fort building skills, and most importantly, the one who came up with everyones alibi when shit got real. We never, ever based our politics on race, religion or class!! You got their back, they had yours!!
From a black brotha…you ain’t lying bruh.
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We grow up together, we are going to ride together!💯
💜💙💚🙏❤🧡💛 Bellè ~ Australia xxx
From a brown cat: you got that right big homie! 💯
When I was in school I was friends with most of the black folks. There was never an issue of race and it was never brought up . We didn't know anything about racism because it was never brought up. The Liberals and the Democratic media are what's creating all this divide. Trump 2024
"quit being a bitch and go find somebody else to kick it with."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!! I'm dead!!
"And we did."
This was so true. My mom never gave in to ANY whining. Do something else, find someone else...
Facts
Truth. My mum wouldn't argue with the neighbours either when us kids were arguing. She said you end up falling out with your neighbours and the kids are playing together five minutes later and forgotten all about their grievances.
It's absolutely the truth
I miss those days.
And sometimes we fight the person we hate and then that person will become our best friend. Speaking of experience.
100% TRUTH! ❤❤❤ Bellè ~ Australia 1972! Xxx
Thats right because now we have an understanding between the two of us. Youth today too scare to take an ass whoopin 1-on-1.
My Kindergarten bully became my best friend after I threw him an ass whooping.
*FACTS*
One of my best friends I ever had.
We first met by beating the dogshit out of each other.
Yep! Brother now in late 40’s a few years ago met this guy at the bar from back in the day. his click and their click always fought at the club. They had a beer together. Dude asked what were we fighting about back then. Brother said I have no fucking clue. Only thing that happen to them back then was a few stitches, busted head or black eye. No one ever went to a funeral. You knuckled up, either give ass whopping or take one. Can’t do that shit today. Dudes are afraid of an ass whooping. Would rather spend their life in prison than lose a fight.
Social media destroyed their lives.. Facts 💯
This video was beyond deprived of going mega viral, and I do genuinely mean that! This should be played in every school, and college campus, in every state.
lol I just saw a shirt with Gen z mocking Gen x , how we text with emojis and stuff like, do they have any idea how completely bland and anonymous they seem to us? Jfc
@@angeldesigns1385yeeeessss
Except it didn’t destroy everyone’s life… it’s technology which allows for better communication. You’re starting to sound more and more like boomers each year that passes…
As a Gen X... he is absolutely right. I had friends in school that were black, Hispanic, and white. Today? I'm sad to say many of them have fallen victim to media driven hatred and stopped talking to me because of my political affiliations. So this stuff does seep into Gen X, it just didn't happen to us in high school and our early 20's.
1980’s and 90’s
Person 1: “You a republican, or democrat”? 🙂
Person 2: “well I’m a republican”🤙
Person 1: “hell yeah I’m a democrat.. want to go get a beer and talk”?!😃
Person 2: “damn right I’ll buy the first round”! 🥳🍺🍺🍺
Grew up Democrat then realized as I'm an adult I had it wrong. Born in 78. Democrats and their views are destroying this country.
From a black sista....amen brother!
You know it baby girl! nothing but truth we all rolled together back in those days..amen🙏
No need to announce your color. We Gen Xers got love for all good people.
Born in 67.. We never had a race problem, everybody got alone unless they were an asshole like he said... We figured things out on our own. Social media and media news has divided people when we were never divided..
Yeah the rule was if you can keep up and take care of yourself and handle brutal but good natured insults, you're alright.
As a Gen-X guy from the UK, I 100% agree with the gentleman's experiences of his youth. I went to several high schools and had friends from many, many different backgrounds, was welcomed into their homes and they were likewise welcomed into my own. My parents as boomers believed in the ideas of MLK and to be racist was seen as bad and unkind, as a result, we weren't anti-racist, we were tolerant and sought to be open to making friends with folks of all backgrounds - hell, it was a pretty boring existence if you didn't! We were also thicker skinned, less prone to take offence like generations that followed us and crucially we were more open to risk taking and being outside - you know, where the world and other people are. For non-Gen Xers, the best image to describe our youths, was of 2 young kids cycling on a busy main road with lots of cars, 1 kid cycling and his friend hitching a ride on the back, no helmets, not lights and no high vis jackets - just freedom and adventure.
This guy is all facts ..
We are known as the Forgotten Generation. I'm floored someone acknowledged our existence by asking us a question! 🤣🤣🤣
They are starting to but do they really want to question us? Gen x gives hard truth
@@IndianaBonesexactly! I noticed our generation is suddenly coming into the light. I'm not sure why but I do know they won't be able to handle our answers
@@lightsalt8530 I agree they are opening Pandora's box
They don’t call us the invisible generation for nothing!
Gen X has had our heads in the sand for the past 10 years though, and have not been able to change the cultural discussion channels back to good sense. We have also been platforming new versions of history that the Millennials wanted to be heard.
"social media just destroyed y'alls lives"
Absolute truth! Well said. 👍👏
Except it didn’t destroy everyone’s life… it’s technology which allows for better communication. You’re starting to sound more and more like boomers each year that passes…
I am a Gen X and goddamn proud of it. That man is doing some real talk y’all listen. Keep up the good work man!
Truly gen x. Yeah I hated my class mates. I was on my own side .
Hell yes, born in 65 and proud of it
Millenial generation but totally understand gen x👍👍👍
@@sasapetroski981 You grow up around Gen-x?
@@IndianaBones yes, born 1980,my brother from my aunt he is born 1970 and second older brother is born 1965.My sister is born 1975
So true. My white friends were my friends. Not a race❤
The liberal Democratic media is really created a lot of divide between all of us. That's why I vote for trump. Because it's time to unite not divide
Honestly it’s always there, we just didn’t live in our emotions. Some calls you a slur… we fought it out. Then got up and went on with our lives. We didn’t live in Victimhood
Shut 2 of my best friends were girls I fought when I first met them, we hated each other, fought, the next day ate lunch and snuck around the back of the school and smoked cigarette together, in the smoking area of our school ! But we were best friends from that point on , actually they are the only 2 people I still talk to from high school , my husband too but he don’t count 😂 AND YES we had a smoking section of where we took our break after eating lunch 😂
yes!
Well said ☮️
I was born in 72 and didn’t have a black classmate until high school. During my childhood I enjoyed watching Fat Albert, Good Times, What’s happening etc. Now I purposely stay away from black entertainment because I’m sick of the constant “racism” bullshit.
Same. And I'm not even wht.
This might be the most accurate thing I've heard in a long time.
It wasn't an issue with us because we all just hung out at school with each other and played outside together. We resolved our issues face to face (and sometimes with some punching here and there) but at the end of the day, we were friends.
Exactly! Tasha and Brandy are ginna fight after school! 😂 And everybody gonna miss the school bus😂. Whole school there.
This guy is more correct than he knows!
Hell yes, spot on! There was no such thing. So many of our childhood shows are now considered "black programming". Uh, what" TV shows, were TV shows, people were people. All the kids in the neighborhood played together. Totally agree with this! We had a great childhood even with many hardships, we just learned to deal.
I’m gen X born and damn proud. We’re probably the last great generation that grew up without all this technology. I was born in July of ‘76 during the bicentennial. A 70’s baby, an 80’s child and a 90’s teen. I feel like I was born at just the right time and got to witness 3 of the greatest decades.
Nah!! I was born in 1968. I got to witness ALL of the 70s. But, after hearing my mom and her siblings (silent generation) talk about those times and then hear my grandparents (greatest generation) talk about life during and right after WWII, I think the one I like the best, the one I would love to live during, would be the 1940-1980. Beautiful time to be alive.
@@user-Danswife 1968, you’re the exact same age as my older brother.
But I have to say I agree with you 100%. The generation that was around during WWII are and will always be the greatest generation ever. The men and women of that era were tough as nails. My Grandfather was a WWII vet and he was one tough old dude when I was a kid. He was such a badass, if he drank a pot of boiling water he would piss ice cubes. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the men that weren’t drafted first voluntarily enlisted in the military, while the women worked in the factories churning out military equipment to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
there will ever be another generation to have that kind of gumption and love for this great country of ours. This new generation is so brainwashed, most of them want to see our country destroyed. Ship them all to a communist country for a year and then see if they change their views.
1976 right here too!
I'll second that motion.
1974
The 90s was the last greatest decade.
“witnessed the 70’s”
a toddler in diapers still shittin’ green, wtf, lol 👍🏻
SDMF⚡️GIFD
As a gen x kid I was taught to speak up but expect to either get your ass beaten or fight. No one hides behind computer and just talk smack. ACCOUNTABILITY is what gen x knows. Our momma taught us that it’s always better for one crazy person to run their mouths than 2 at the same time. We just don’t care!
Part of the general pattern of neglect that we received from our Boomer parents meant that we were able to just hang out with other kids and be natural human beings together - and they forgot to tell us that we needed to hate each other because we were different. Now a lot of that had to do with the small farming town that I grew up in, too .. but imagine my surprise when I came to a big city, and found out that I was hated on account of my skin color!
Morgan Freeman has it right: As soon as people stop making ethnicity an issue, it stops being an issue.
Best explanation ever. So proud to be a genX.🏁🏴☠️
Same.
I’m generation X and proud !!!! Well spoken …❤
💯 agree...1972 baby...fun childhood! Come in when the lights come on...damn lights 🤣
Lmaoo that street light rule was definitely a universal rule in those days.
❤❤❤10/10/1972! 🙏🌏 Much love from Bellè ~ Australia xxx
I lived on a road that had no street lights so my parents used the porch light rule. They even used that darn porch light to signal it was time for the "long goodbye" to end when my dates would drop me off at home. When that porch light blinked, I better be in before it blinked again!! 🤣
Truth!
and then we just stayed in the front yard for as long as we could till we were told to come inside for the night.
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Literally your speaking gold I relate to that 💯
Brother speaking truth!
He is on point. And it was so nice spending summers outside with anyone in the neighborhood. Regardless of race or status. We all hung out ❤
Preach! We didn’t have play dates and mommy and me dates and dates with moms and the kids! We went around the neighborhood knocked on doors and found out who was at home and not on punishment and thus could come out and play. Once we got together, we the children decided what we was gonna do based on what WE wanted to do. Who has a bike? well I got a bike but you just got a skateboard so that’s a’ight you hang onto the back of my bike- we gonna go over here and play in the woods. We gonna play stick ball or basketball or street hockey out in the middle street. Or we gonna go to the vacant lot and play. We didn’t have parents making our decisions FOR us. We learned from a young age to be able to make decisions and troubleshoot and come to conclusions and decisions together without adult intervention. We didn’t get butt hurt about stuff! As a matter of fact, if you were a sensitive child? Woe be onto you because you were an outcast just for being sensitive. We could be enemies one day and best friends the next. But universally? The neighborhood had each other’s back. It didn’t matter whether you was white, black, brown, red or yellow (or as my granny used to say purple with pink polkadots)- we were all in this together!
We loved everyone except pedos! We didn't see race, color .... we didn't have all this stupidity
We seen race. .. I just think we were more about respect and morals of a person.
We learned to live amongst each other.
Now we seem to be going backwards in racism
Spot on why Gen Xers didn't like people when they were kids. Mainly doe to people being assholes is why we didn't like it. That take is 100% spot on.
Most of us grew up with Sesame Street, enough said 🤷♀️
And it was just normal to us growing up seeing different kinds of people because of Sesame street
also the blade movie from 1998. That movie was Amazing. Only comic to movie i like.
I found out in my 40's that my dad hated the spanish speaking on Sesame Street. He kept his mouth shut my whole childhood because he wanted me to be better than him. That's the best he could do. It worked.
We didn’t all have Sesame Street. We grew up before cable and when the TV actually stopped broadcasting every night and went off the air. In rural WV we had limited stations that came in…my house only had 3 stations. I do remember Friday Night Videos before MTV.
Exactly
He ain't lying. Race and color just wasn't an issue. We were just kids having fun.
This is literally one of the best answers I have ever heard. For anything. Ever.
This video has been around for a while, and it still remains to be my favorite on this topic. This dude has the genuine charisma to relate to almost anyone, and this should be played in every school and college campus in every state!
Gen Xer here, my friends and family are all different shades of beautiful, we always had each other's backs.
Gen X, 1967. I was fortunate to be in the first generation where our classes were racially mixed in my Texas hometown. We had about a third Hispanic, a third black, and a third white. Racism just seems ridiculous to me.
Yes, exactly! Gen X was the last generation of kids who grew up just having fun. We didn't have hate wars, we had neighborhood baseball games, bike rides to the park, later we'd all ride bikes to the arcade.
LOVE THIS!!!! Gen X… we just loved PEOPLE. We lived and loved the simple life. We saw someone needed help, we helped them. We saw someone needed encouragement, we cheered them on. We saw someone needed a shoulder to cry on, we listened. We did all this for each other because we cared for PEOPLE. Not certain races. But PEOPLE. WE STILL DO. Our generation doesn’t let social media, media, or other people change our minds or influence our hearts about people. Race doesn’t matter to us. PEOPLE DO!!! Be there for each other. Love each other. God Bless you ALL! ❤
I went home in Kindergarten crying to my my mom because I learned about MLK and the teacher told us that white and black people couldn't be friends because I was white and my best friend Roderick (my next door neighbor) was my best friend... this was in 1985 we had been best friends since the day we met and still can walk into each other's home here 37 years later...
So wow. It started early with those leftist teachers & CRT!😡😤🙏🇺🇸
...1985 ha? That must have been when this stupidity started where you couldn't be a part of another's culture or understand it. Certainly couldn't be besties, my God, cultural appropriation via friendship! 😲
@@user-Danswife yeah but it's only lefties (mainly the higher classed white Karens and privileged blacks who have never known hardship and you cant forget the racist blacks who were raised by hateful black single mothers) who actually believe in the cultural appropriation bullshit.
BRILLIANT COMMENT, beautiful story, golden truth! A thousand blessings on your friendship 💚💙💜🙏❤🧡💛 Bellè~ Australia xxx
What part of the country?
If there was racism, it was real, it was blatant and it was handled quickly, then dropped. Hands were thrown and then friendship or a semblance of it was hatched
Facts. I was born in 88 born and raised in the deep south. My best friend was white, my cousins were mexican we were just kids being kids.
I'm black...born in 72. You so right. Listening to today's media...you'd think we were in slave days😅
1981, and boy am I glad I was born when I was. Hell, I wish could go back and do it again. My nephew couldn't believe some of the stuff my wife and her sister and myself were telling him about growing up when we did. I feel bad for his generation because they will never experience things like we did.
84 here, and I miss those days too
You got that shit. You know what I Miss the metal slides that we should go down and down on and sometimes a playground they make it so big that it's like a damn Fortress
Hot as fuck! But we kept going down that metal slide!!!
Metal slides that were tall & most kids knew at least one kid who fell off the top...Not to mention the monkey bars & merry - go- round we would spin as hard as we could & we would hold on praying we weren't the one to fly off the damn thing.
Last generation who knew what it was for TV to go off
Yes, the t.v. test program at the end of the service day. Signed out with the national anthem!
Remember running in my apartment as a kid getting chased by another neighborhood kid and my mom guaranteed me an ass whooping if I stayed inside.
This right here! The younger generation, the majority of them don’t understand “who let us off the hook”?!? There are a handful who understand why you don’t F with generation X.
If we came in the house crying because so and so hit us or so and so called us a bad name? Our mamas didn’t care that that happened! They wanted to know two things: you want me to beat your ass if you stay in this house and did you fight back?
Hundred percent guaranteed you was gonna get your ass whipped by staying in the house AND your ass whipped when your daddy got home cause you ain’t stand up for yourself OR elected to stay inside AND they was gonna send you outside to do that shit again until you stood up for yourself.
I’m a girl, 1978 born and raised, and let me tell you both my mama and my daddy used to tell me if I threw the first punch? I was getting my ass whipped when I got home. But if someone else threw the first punch and I didn’t stand up for myself? I was getting my ass whipped AND put on punishment when I got home!
My daddy used to say to me all the time “I didn’t raise no bully, but I sure as shit ain’t no pussy.”
gen x are the realest ones overall. i know some real millenials and gen z's, but real gen xers are more abundant but the quiestest.
Some Gen z and Gen y are honorable gen-x since they grew up around gen-x'ers
Case and Point… we weren’t sensitive and offended about everything … preach it!!
I have friends constantly try to get me to do Facebook. Nope, don't want the drama, besides, im told id be kiched off in a day anyway.
This is true. Gen X AfroLatino here. Never had beef with anyone one about race.
Facts life was so simple back then now the world is doomed with social media
Truth WE were a multicultural neighborhood gang fighting against the street lights 🤞🏾😂
Gen X was the last Generation to talk to humans face to face.
Why can’t we normalize this? Shouldn’t we be in charge now? Why are we not doing being?
Why are you lying?
WORD.
This man is truly speaking all our truths
this felt like a good visit, reminiscing with someone I went to high-school with! so much truth!
He's not wrong. I'm 35 born and raised in a small town. I never(not once) saw any kind of racism. Except when I turned on the tv.💯💯💯
I'm white. My first best friend was black. Back 1985.
We weren't taught to focus on what makes us different, that's all anyone cares about anymore, we were just people
We didn't have the luxury of hiding behind online profiles and Hashtags. We also had no reason to fake anything about us.
It was so different in the 80s/early 90s... it was great. The gauge was if you were cool,that's it.
75? Back that up 10 years brother - GenX started in the 60s but you're right, we've been in multi-cultural schools since day 1
"shut up sit down and listen you might learn something"
When we had problems with each other, we settled it usually around 3pm in a parking lot.
Important edit:
My best friend ride or die friend is someone i beat to shit. 1993 Aloha Lanes parking lot, we both caught cracks from our parents when we got home. Miss those days.
Word! My boys were all colors we fought and was friends the same day.
Amen & Hallelujah 🙏🙌 to that. 💯 Percent True.
ON POINT💯 I miss those days so much😥
Way too real
Very true. Most of my friends were different races. We were taught to fight bullies or get dealt with at home. A bully got messed up 😂😂😂😂
My white GenX boys had friends of all races...to this day.
@fatlarry1184 true story, but why is it whites are whites like there's no diversity amongst us. I'm a white gen X'er, and most of my white friend's parents didn't speak English at home. That's a diversity to me. There's diversity in itself when it's tough to communicate with your friend's parents, or your parents to communicate with their parents and such. As was the case with Italians, Germans, Macedonians, Russians, etc.
Gen X here, Preach, it’s was the best time of my life!
We weren't racist because we didn't have people telling us too hate each other 24/7 like millennials and genz did.
1970 here. Race wasn't an issue because we didn't make it an issue. That wasn't black Tylor, it was just Tylor. That wasn't white Doug, it was just Doug. If I didn't like you, it wasn't because you were black, brown, whatever. I just didn't like YOU. Most times our not liking each other was settled with a fight. After school, surrounded by a mob of kids shit went down. It wasn't pretty. But getting punched in the face a few times then seeing each other at school the next day you start to rethink why you didn't like someone. As long as you gave as good as you got most things were put to bed. We became cool. We were one step away from animals and it was awesome. LOL I'm white and to this day some of my best friends are black. Todays generation throws around the word racist like saying hello. You wouldn't have lasted a week in my youth. Because you would have called someone a racist and you'd have had a hail of white, black, brown fists raining down on you. If you didn't learn you'd get it again the next day and the day after that. Thats why when you start talking this shit most GenXers want to punch you in the face. Think of it like a reset button.
It was there. I delivered pizza's in high school. One of my deliveries a guy gave me a flyer for the local Klan and invited me to a local gathering. I balled it up in my car, tossed it out, thought it was weird but never thought about it much after.
We had Miami Vice, 48 hours, Leathal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, and even . . . The Cosby Show as our guide to race relations. None of that was forced and felt natural.
Racisom just was not there. We lived our life with what come along. This dude is on spot. ;)
WORD
also we were raised to have RESPECT.
❤❤❤❤ 100% PURE GOLD! LOVE YOUR WORK AWESOME GUY! 🌏 Bellè ~ Australia xxx
100% FACTS! Shout out to all my fellow GenX brothers and sisters!
I was born in 1970. Instead of being raised by parents I was raised by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. I say this with emotion when I tell you how thankful I am to the both of them. I am an Anti-Racist because of them.
I would also like to add that the 90's was the best decade when it comes to racism. You saw a lot more inter racial relationships then now or before. Then social media came and ruined everything.
'' I was raised by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. ''
giggling
I was also raised by Slush Puppy
Now is actually less Diverse
As Cultures are more globalised and more same
L M F A O !
We Gen Xers have to show these youngsters how to behave and how to live.
GENX ARMY.... FOR REAL.
Facts! I knew nothing about racism until I was an adult. My friends were & still are from everywhere. Let's get back to that. If only..........
Brooo you are dropping a big bomb of facts !!!! I hate social media because of this sick racism im a mixed kid makes it specially hard for people like me!! i am puerto rican and jamaican and my neighborhood was filled with mixed race couples people today would be so shocked i was born in 94 the last of the hip hop love era 😢
God Bless our Momma’s cause they weren’t coming down to the school to help us out of our problems. We made the problem and we had to deal with the consequences.
We don’t care what color your skin is as long as you are cool.
this guy nails it.
Bars, spitting bars. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for theirs.
Amen. Speaking pure truth. God I miss those times.
This is straight truth!
Lower end Gen Xer here 1969.. I would agree with most.. but as far as race! No you knew about White and Black strait up..the later part of Gen X is different! But for the most part yeah.. tough ass thick skinned generation.. Not Fragile!!!!
69 is core gen x
68 72 is core
Spot on!! I feel bad for this generation. These problems have been self created. I miss the 90s.
Our parents were like....Go outside and find something to do...
You nailed it my friend! I was born in 65, grew up in Chicago. Grammar school was a melting pot, Caucasians were the minority. 60% black, 25% Hispanic, the rest were Italian, Polish and Irish. More than half of my best friends were black, and I grew up where my boomer parents were against bussing (don’t get me wrong, I love them, but there they were subject to the crap before the civil rights movement, it’s what they were taught by their parents unfortunately … they are cool now). We didn’t care as kids. We were all different, but we got along just fine. That was true genX behavior. Then we moved to the burbs just before high school. Ratios were so different, I was in another world. Got into a fight my first day because the class bully called me an a**hole. I got up, and beat the you know what out of him in the middle of class. I had after school detention for a month for that. Then he picked on a black gal in my neighborhood. That did not end well when I saw it happen. Kicked his a** … after that, no problems. Just wanted to share, GenX is for everyone, inclusive, stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. I have zero tolerance for bigotry, however I think DEI has gone a bit too far these days.
This exactly.
Can we PLEASE have a Gen X in the White House?
Please?
I started kindergarten in Georgia in 1973 just a couple of years after segregation was abolished. We were all just kids and didn't know ant different.
Greatest Era Ever! Words of wisdom.
Amen like you said social media is messing all our kids up I tell my kid how I grew up he said Mom I wish I could go up and your time.
He said some real shit
You hung out with kids that contributed something useful to your mob. Some had field medic skills, some had fort building skills, and most importantly, the one who came up with everyones alibi when shit got real. We never, ever based our politics on race, religion or class!! You got their back, they had yours!!
Im 47 born in 76 everything he just said is the absolute truth😂
Yup. Cool or Asshole was the only criteria that we used in the day
Gen X is the best generation. The OGs, baby! 😂