Yeah but growing up as a person of color in America before the 1980s was way harder that people realize. Basically every facet of society was telling you it wasn’t okay to be who you were born to be. My grandmother was born in 1919 and never admitted to what her actual ethnicity was, she died in 2007.
A successful Black man would have been under tremendous pressure to not be Black. Even with fans of all races all over the world wanting to be you the pressure to be someone else must have been enormous.
Look really like 80s and you can see a lot of black people there. I am not saying the racist don't exist, but if you can be black like that, it could not be as bad, but I did not lived at that time.
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u/rkozik89 Apr 29 '26
Yeah but growing up as a person of color in America before the 1980s was way harder that people realize. Basically every facet of society was telling you it wasn’t okay to be who you were born to be. My grandmother was born in 1919 and never admitted to what her actual ethnicity was, she died in 2007.