It was happening in the ‘60s, but it was the boomers’ parents – the Silent Generation – perpetrating it because the boomers were still mostly teenagers at the time. The boomers didn’t spend the '60s spitting on children; the boomers spent the '60s being the children who were spit on.
There is no miscommunication here. We understand what you’re saying. Do you think that kids weren’t bullying each other? Those black kids walking into a formerly white school were NOT welcomed with open arms by their classmates.
Sure, the Boomers learned it from their parents, and probably weren’t nearly as bad as the Silents, but they were still pretty racist as a whole.
Okay, let me try again:
It was happening in the ‘60s, but it was the boomers’ parents – the Silent Generation – perpetrating it because the boomers were still mostly teenagers at the time. The boomers didn’t spend the '60s spitting on children; the boomers spent the '60s being the children who were spit on.
There is no miscommunication here. We understand what you’re saying. Do you think that kids weren’t bullying each other? Those black kids walking into a formerly white school were NOT welcomed with open arms by their classmates.
Sure, the Boomers learned it from their parents, and probably weren’t nearly as bad as the Silents, but they were still pretty racist as a whole.