Yeah because it's mostly bullshit . Blacks have actually progressed in society and playing victim to barely existent racism . Actually they create more racism today than anyone
@@morgantseasrant1948 as someone that grew up during gen x, we didnt have a lot of racists lol and none of those old guys you see today had the balls to act like that when they had to confront people daily that knew them. These are all a bunch of weak kids that were born and raised in the upper suburbs that want to cause a problem now.
@@VolkXue that statement is 100% FALSE. There's no way you're an American GenX POC if u make that claim. I was getting called Nword and more by strangers before I even got to elementary school in the early 80's. The KKK had marches and rallies during the 80's and 90's just like the alt-right does now. And that's just for starters. I could go on and on listing examples from that era...
As a millennial, this is the best documentary about Gen X (my mother's generation). It has given me a better understanding of what they have been through, but over 30 years later, racism is still relevant today.
And it always will until we start loving our skin and loving each other once again! I’m the last generation that saw the love between our people! We used to care about one another we checked up on one another, we call each other, brother we called each other, sister. We knocked on our neighbors door to make sure that everything was OK and that they had the food that they needed! But them folks made sure that that didn’t happen anymore! Point being, brother being shot for another brother stepping on his brand new shoes! Is that what we’ve become? We’re so materialistic that material things mean more than human life! Folks put the guns, and the drugs in our hoods and look at us now. 2/3 will always be the 2/3 but for those of us that woken up, fight the power and keep our praises to the East!!!APTTMH!!!!
Lol... " Loving " each other is not going to stop shit like this from happening..... You must not know much about world history???? Passive people never win.....
@@seamusohoulihan666 i think it’s self sacrificing, you know. Like the individuals willing to burn themselves in The street to protest for independence or other reasons. (It worked a few times but it was an active choice). It’s not as simple as just love, but the willingness to destroy yourself instead of others… maybe. (Don’t even get me started on fetishized people, and false accusations of fetichism)
Pat Boone was a manufactured pop star, little white kids loved Black music, but the establishment didn't want the songs original artists ( like Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, etc.) Performing in front of white audiences, so they recruited people like Pat Boone to be the white face singing the Black song for the little white kids, he was like a 50s version of Justin Bieber.
I feel u on this In Living Color was a GREAT show, but i have to correct u...Keenen Ivory Wayans is the guys name...he's not two people...the "&" u wrote implies two people...he's just one guy and with the help of a couple of his close buddies and family members (some starred on the show with him) the show became a massive hit and a huge success for him.
This was prophetic period! I was a little girl when this came out. Thank you for posting this piece of history. Racism and prejudice is learned and taught at home.
@@DianaPrinceitiswhatitis But people are called racist for things that aren't worth calling it that. Real racism is the belief in inherent racial superiority and inferiority, not just dislike of a racial group.
@@Anthony-f2d4wthe definition of racism starts with "discrimination OR antagonism by an individual". It's not just about looking down on someone for their race. If someone says "I *dislike* black people" it doesn't matter what type of twist you try to put on it, that is racist
People are missing the point of this video! I've seen cats and dogs raised together and got along just fine, racism was alive then and still today in 2024 everything changes but racism.
You know what puzzles me is they will say racism is taught, usually from the parents but growing up you are taught or influenced by many things and as you grow into adulthood you pick and choose what you want to follow, why choose to follow being a racist?? I wonder what exactly is said that ppl choose to hold onto ignorant beliefs as they grow up
People use the word racism for things that aren't worth calling racism. If someone wants to avoid a racial group because of their bad behavior and bad experiences with them, that isn't worth calling racism and it isn't based on ignorance, its a natural response. Its like calling a woman a sexist for wanting to avoid men who look like they have bad intentions. Racism is the belief in inherent racial superiority and inferiority, not just dislike of a racial group.
Children naturally want to please their parents. Some parents are aggressive and instill fear of them in their children and thst can be hard to break. It doesn't excuse bad behavior, but it can explain why some people continue on in their ignorance.
That's what happened to me and I'm from an African American home. I refused to allow hate to shape my world view on every person based off the shade of brown their skin was.
add religious indoctrination as a huge influence… families were much more church oriented back then, than now; without out side influences to show another way
Wow. Sadly, our generation ignored many of these messages or brushed them aside. Gen X really could have changed the game. Chasing status and money I feel is what got us. Our classism and elitism definitely made it a cozy home for bigotry and segregation to live.
I think a lot of us were told now that legal segregation ended, go out and make your mark where those before you couldn’t. Many were immediately moved to upper class suburbs, schools and colleges our parents couldn’t enter. They thought succeeding in their arena was the final hurdle. I just think we didn’t know change by being the one at the table might not be enough
@@benitajones9115Well said. Chasing White ideals have always been a trap of subservience for Black people. The more you pledge your loyalty and skills to them; the more you advance and as a result, you feel obligated to put them before your own people. Capitalism, as it stands, is a battleground that relies on a perpetual wealth disparity that normally targets and degrades minority populations.
Gen X were kids when this came out. How could we have "changed the game"? Most of the ppl in the video are boomers - Santana, Paul Simon, Dennis Leary, Russel Simmons, Arsenio Hall, etc... all Boomers
7:06 Is a very true statement. People still think that because they listen to different music, and have certain interests of a culture other than their own will make racism go away, but that is not true. For example in the 1950’s, many other races listened to Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Big Mama Thornton, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, etc. But you see how regardless of the performer’s status, it didn’t change the reality of how racist people were back then.
@Belluser-we1uc5cb2l that still doesn't negate my premise, racism maybe tolerable these dsys because we longer have it blatantly in our face like the kkk back then but racism still internally kept in subconscious bias ,blacks still make up morjority of the u.s prison population and every other other ethnic group that's thrive in this country has been giving reparations except blacks and many more examples I haven't mention.
He seems more prominent in popular culture than he actually is because of that lack of representation, though. Your perception that his observations don't match reality is actually proof of his point.
He didn't say Prince didn't get enough radio play. He said Prince had to do a strip tease to get noticed. Prince songs were in heavy rotation in the 80's and 90's (well, from '84 on anyway)
@@drog.ndtrax3023 no no, Santana was extremely prevalent in pop culture. His songs still get heavy airplay, and it’s been that way for decades. It seems that way, bc it is that way.
Good video even though it brings back bad memories from 1991. Gen Xers were the first post Civil Rights generation that were born and raised after legal racism officially ended. Unfortunately our parents and elders were still socialized during official segregation and many of the white elders resented the legal changes and instilled hatred and prejudice in their kids and grandkids. It certainly didn't help having openly and unabashed racist presidential administrations of Reagan and Bush, Sr. Howard Beach (86) and Bensonhurst (89) were encouraged and fueled by the statements and policies of Reagan and Bush. This wasn't unique to the US. The UK had similar, if not worse, racial conflict thanks to the Thatcher government, who came into power with the intent of driving all non-whites out of Britain. Those were harsh times entering society as a young adult. Frankly I think that our generation regardless of race and ethnicity was traumatized growing in the socio-political climate of the 80s.
I lived this. Thank you. GenX are the immediate post civil rights era kids. The bridge between the old prejudices and new ideals. Not always by protesting but just by interaction and exposure. Glad to see our youth culture moved the needle a little.
As a Sikh, at 10:32 was that guy supposed to be a Sikh? You literally made a caricature of a Middle Eastern person or maybe a Sikh, and put it up to "fight racism".
I was 6 when this came out, and it felt like it took me back to kindergarten class in Bayside, NY, when the teacher would stroll in the tv with the vcr and announce to the classroom that we were going to watch something special for an hour. Really took me all the way back to 1991 again (except I wished i was older then). 😂
Beethoven was white. We literally have his hair to run tests on. The only "evidence" used is by people who don't realize the Moors (possible partial lineage of Beethoven) were't just North Africa but the majority of Spain as well.
We definitely have not came far in American society lol racism is just as rampant now as it was then smh you can see it in some of the comments on this video
Hey class of 91' here. I grew up in a small town, yes racism was sometimes an issue, but I never saw myself as a victim, and I had good friends of all races. It's worst today
I was a teen at this time , hip-hop was super pro-black , teaching, positive, political and dance too, but.... the powers that be didn't like that so... came nwa and all the other bs
Does anyone know where the guys from the band, Wanted are today? I am from the Bay Area and even I did not know about them - slightly before my time ('92 baby). And this documentary is a total thought-provoking, time capsule, thank you so much for uploading.
ok..... so who gave them the incentive that RAP music belongs to EVERYONE??? I can't believe this is the statement that was being said the 90s... only when it benefits everyone else it's AMERICAS music...
@@miapia7229Right! It’s almost like people forget what group of people own a majority of record labels. Whatever music you’re hearing is what THOSE people want you to hear.
The thing is that blacks have like very few rock bands at the time they make a few tunes. How many white rock bands have not made it in the industry. Not everyone becomes Motley crew, Led zeppelin ect
That black rock band is pretty legit, do they have a Spotify or IG ? Ironic enough, the music industry (Or lack there of....) hand picks their which race does which genere which is why you rarely black artist doing rock and White Artist doing wrap; Run DMC is a good example. Now, Its Kid Cudi singing on SNL in a girl's dress, Lizzo is legally not allowed to lose weight due to public opinion and basically, the modern day black music has become a money grab for white people to listen to off of Spotify . Which is why GenZ and soon enough, Gen Alpha will choose which artist to listen to as they have even more of the power to do so
I was trying to explain to someone that Chuck D, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were the only anti-racist teachers I needed coming up in the 80's and this person (who clearly didn't know who those two men were and thought Queen Latifah was an actress) said, "a lot has changed since the 90's." 🤣😂😭
That young man almost beaten to death was my friend and classmate Shane Daniels from Riverhead High School. That ended the so called colorblind vibes of the times for me.
1991 Was My Year. ℹ Was 16. For Arsenio Hall To Get At Vanilla Ice, Was An Overkill. Fr. White Americans Show Up and Show Out For They Own.. ℹ.E. Vanilla Ice, Eminem Etc.
Love to see the awesome Lawrence Gilliard Jr. at the end there! In case no one has mentioned it, that muted section at 19:24 is an excerpt from this Sly & the Family Stone cover: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hieOEdbViv0.htmlsi=FejP7z-dYYKG8EyO
This docu is produced through money, like all docus are money dependent. First comes the money. Then it is able to be produced, then it's put on an media outlet aka television (in the old days today social media). But prior to this process its censored. This censorship comes through the Federal Reserve setting up a REGULATORY AGENCY (Law Making Corporation). In this mass media case it's the F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission). Docus are also printed in from of history books, that are available in bookstores or later on in the Public Library. Public School Libraries and in a kind of modified way, in College and University Libraries. If we understand mass media, we see how it works and who ownes it, we're able then to see that there is something wrong with these docus, history books, College and University books from that time. The Fed finances all of this, meaning it owns all media outlets (media platforms). As it owns all outlets, it is able to set up a law structure for binding all outlets into a Regulatory function (censorship) by having the public constantly hit with freedom of speech, Democracy, Constitutional Rights, freedom of speech, woman empowerment. This is important, as a normal mind not on drugs, is thinking at times there is something wrong. All outlets are owned by the fed (Federal Reserve Bank of America) through providing the money for maintaining the production of all docus that are produced in the US. This means all outlets - High School Libraries, Public School Libraries, College & University Libraries, Television, Hollywood, Radio, Book Stores, Prison Libraries. If the finances are there, the production is going on, on an assembly line. This is called also Propaganda. There is absolutely no black person involved in this law making operation of the F.C.C. The outcome of all this money invested for watching it on the idiot box, reading history books, watching movies like Malcolm X is simply a planned operation. If we see blacks involved in this gigantic scam of freedom of speech, we are able to immediately assess that they're only fronts, to have black folks convinced that this book, or this film, or this docu is black. Book Reference: The Secret Powers Behind Revolutions by Leon de Poncins./// Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz by Cecil Ravauger./// Secrets Of The Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins./// The Unseen Hand by Ralph Epperson./// A Study in American Freemasonry by Arthur Preuss./// The Plot Against The Church by Maurice Pinay.///
I was as well in my 20s during this time but I am a German boomer (1955-1964) & this was as well my era. Generation bias was not as strong as in the US - it wasn’t that someone who was 25 considered you out of touch bc you were 27 or 28 lol.
Many cities today…like say Baltimore, have had black police commissioner, black mayors, black DAs, black superintendent of schools, even a black governor of the state. So what’s the answer? In a country where you’re 13% of the population, what is the solution?
@@RonkeStationnot really. Light skin is lack of melanin if you’re talking black ppl. However, two things can be true at once. The thing with the rise of mixed ppl is that ppl always equate light and mixed first instead of light and not mixed. You don’t have to be mixed to be ls. There will always be the difference between a ls black person and a lighskin ambiguous person (mixed with black, whatever).
The irony of those itralians guys rapping in bensonhurst. Heard black people got ran out of that part of Brooklyn 🤦🏿♀️smh music is for everybody my ahss
U know what’s funny PEOPLE KEEP SAYING VOTE VOTE VOTE AND YALL VEEN VOTING SINCE YALL ASKED FOR RIGHTS AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT WHAT BLACK FOLKS GOT GOING ON SO STOP SAYING VOTE OR THINGS WONT CHANGE ! When has it ever !
I remember back in the Early 1980s The Black kide were into what was still dubbed ""Soul" Music (which included early RAP) at the time and the White kids were into "Rock" (including "Metal," "Punk Rock" Etc ). I was getting into Jazz at the time myself. There was Culturally Specific Herd Conformity among Both groups. Ultimately I found a "Going Commercial" as a Blues/R&B as a sideman often in Black Venus and/or Black Musicians. I strive not to be Racist/Sexist and the like. It's something to be worked on. "Whiteness" often has an element of "Normalcy" as someone on the Autism Spectrum that is the was I can be identified as a marginalized group. Ironically with the Anti-Semitic Hate groupps I am have seen the disappointment of how the current Israel-Palestine situation and here is a Jewish population acting like Nazis and tarring critics as Anti-Semites.
