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Author Topic: Death of Playground Basketball  (Read 12931 times)

Lennys Tap

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Re: Death of Playground Basketball
« Reply #50 on: July 29, 2014, 02:52:14 PM »

According to Chicos, if the lives of middle-class, heterosexual white Americans were better back in the 1950s, then the lives of *all* American were better back then.

He is living an over-romanticized version of the past.

You forgot "males".

Coleman

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Re: Death of Playground Basketball
« Reply #51 on: July 29, 2014, 04:06:38 PM »
Many people of your advanced age don't agree Lenny.  Like some of the WWII and Korean War vets that I have the pleasure of being with each year.  Of course, BrandX and Sultan will call my wife and I a liar when I say that.  Wish they could be there each July 4th, maybe they can come out and hear it for themselves.

I'm enjoying your fine city of Chicago, today, Lenny.  Cool temps, not too bad on the humidity.  

I'm sure those old folks are white men.

If you were a Japanese-American citizen in the 1940s, life wasn't much fun being imprisoned with no due process.

If you were an African-American, you used a different water fountain, attended separate schools, rode in the back of the bus, and couldn't stay in white hotels.

If you were a married woman, you were property of your husband. If you were unmarried, you probably worked for 50% of the pay of a man in a comparable job, and you were never going to run that company.  

If you were gay, you had to hide your identity from the world or face career and social suicide.

But yeah, if you fell into the 30% of the population that was a white heterosexual male, life was probably pretty good.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2014, 04:11:40 PM by Bleuteaux »

rocky_warrior

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Re: Death of Playground Basketball
« Reply #52 on: July 29, 2014, 04:18:24 PM »
Seems like this thread is going well too...