It was a time when you could leave your doors unlocked without fear of getting robbed, a time when familys ate home cooked meals together around the dinner table, and everyone went to church on sunday.
2007-07-19 14:24:49 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
yo. where would dat leave me? kunta rob noone... but I see white folks points. my brothas need to stop commiting da crimes. we 12 percent of US population yet most of da crime and that need to be stopping. and we need to leave da white woman alone... the black sista's be getting pissed
2007-07-19 14:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ummmm ...
Are you talking about the good white Christian America of the '50s where people from the "wrong side of the tracks" weren't even allowed in church?
Or the good white Christian America of the '30s, with two parents working opposite shifts to put food on the table, let alone sitting together to eat it?
Oh, I know, you must be referring to the good white Christian America where one didn't need to lock one's door - because crosses burn better outside anyway, and doors burn down, locked or unlocked.
I grew up sheltered in suburbia in the '60s. I thought every family owned a nice home, left doors unlocked, could walk a mile in any direction from their home without any thought of danger, ate dinner at the table together every evening and went to church every Sunday. I was in the minority.
America is not a good nation, it's a great nation. But not because it's white or Christian. Skin color and religion have nothing to do with goodness. Robert "KKK" Byrd and you might disagree with me on that, but I'll take my chances.
2007-07-19 14:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by mrscjr 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I do remember the days of keeping my doors unlocked, eating daily family meals together, but not necessarily going to church on Sunday.
I do not wish that I lived in a good "White" "Christian" nation.
Is there something wrong with Blacks, Asians, Jews, Latinos, Protestants, Mormans, etc.?
I cannot understand how someone can call themselves a "Christian" and be so hypocritical, judgmental and racist.
I would love to be able to keep my doors unlocked and eat daily family meals together, but neither has anything to do with religion.
I am proud to say that I am a Pagan and I wish to live in a nation of white, black, yellow, green and orange! Yes, I am a "Whitey"!
DO NOT ASSUME I SHARE YOUR PREJUDICES
2007-07-19 14:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by Vera C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That would be like saying, don't you wish the world stayed the same forever and that is impossible. Life evolves and changes everyday. When my mother grew up she had the great depression to live through. Her family never knew from day to day if they would have a roof over their head. When I was growing up people complained of the flower children, drugs, Vietnam. Each generation is entitled to their era and what was going on at that time. You can't stop the world from changing.
2007-07-19 14:52:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate to burst your bubble, but America was never a good white Christian nation. White men ran it and it is always better to be in the driver's seat than passenger or worse.
It was a simpler time. Regular folks left their doors unlocked as there was a more certain penalty for anything else. Politicians were just as corrupt, the public just never heard it reported. Families were closer out of need and no other choice. They kept disputes private, inside the family. We did not hear of much of the things going on today because of communications not being so plentiful.
As for Christian, only as much as it benefited them at the time. The FBI was just as willing to stomp on personal freedoms as today. Men treated other men as animals solely on the color of their skin. Women were not treated as "a weaker vessel" but as some kind of property.
2007-07-19 14:40:01 · answer #5 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about "good white christian", but I do long for the days when it wasn't so acceptable to be gay and have children out of wedlock. Family values were important and families stayed together-even if they had to fake it. I believe our people were stronger then than they are now. It's so okay to have the word "*ss", "b**ch", etc on tv. It shouldn't be.
2007-07-19 15:20:07 · answer #6 · answered by scvidrine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are very naive. That was never America, that was just American TV. You could very well argue America back then was just as bad as today - civil rights protests, Vietnam, the Grateful Dead. Everyone was just more conservative and private back then, so one person's problem was only their own, and not everyone who watched E! knew about it. If anything, it's the liberal "christian" media that is making everyone afraid of everything. I feel safer in my home than in a catholic church, that's for sure.
2007-07-19 14:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by Matt R 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There has never been a time in America where everyone went to church on Sunday.
2007-07-19 14:28:48 · answer #8 · answered by Nicole B 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Nope. I like it now. Diversity = Strength. And I do leave my doors unlocked, and eat home cooked meals. I just don't go to church.
2007-07-19 14:28:56 · answer #9 · answered by caterpillar girl 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
THE GOOD OL' DAYS!
When women and blacks had little rights. Where women weren't seen as equals, or received lesser wages. When blacks where hosed, attacked with dogs, and killed for just wanting to be equal.
My grandparents owned their own home in a black community, they never locked their doors. Race has nothing to do with what this world has become. It's ideology.
2007-07-19 14:43:16 · answer #10 · answered by ©Diva© 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Re-read your history book again and tell me who are responsible for killing millions upon millions of people? Then tell me when we were ever in a time where I could leave my front door open?
2007-07-19 15:11:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋