I never got too close to white people like that, but some people I know say they saw their white friends change after Obama got elected and everything that went down with all the police killings.
Also, to be honest, I saw this more with the millenial/GenZ generation.
They really thought we were living in a quote/unquote..........."post-racial"............society.
Most of us already knew better than that, but those generations had to find out the hard way.
It probably varies from person to person, but for the most part, she's right. When my parents came up, segregation was still a thing. Our generation was the first to be born into a country that was supposed to at least be on a path to equality. I always went to majority black schools, but there were some white people there, and to some extent the relationship between the races looked somewhat promising. It was the South, so the differences between us were obvious, but I'd say our mindset at the worst was "we'll let bygones be bygones." That was when we got young though. The older we got, the more it seemed like the white people just wanted to be and do what white people have always done. I think it basically comes down to it being easy for them to want to abandon the old privleges when they are young and don't understand what those privileges mean. However, when they got older and realized that not having those privileges might make their lives harder, they took a hard turn.
All that said, I don't even understand the question. I don't see where Black Gen Xers are so pissed off. I feel like we're are a lot nice in general than we should be.
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