I saw a reel where it was stitched and this White Gen X guy asked why were Black GenXers so angry and the Black woman said "Because we grew up with you and thought you were different but you turned into your parents." A word. - ThreadSky

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I saw a reel where it was stitched and this White Gen X guy asked why were Black GenXers so angry and the Black woman said "Because we grew up with you and thought you were different but you turned into your parents."

A word.

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stoneriverkf.bsky.social•1 day ago

it was worse than that. they argued that old people were worried about nothing and all the efforts to fight the evil of the past was wasted. they removed the road blocks on the road that evil drives on today. they are way more treacherous than their parents were.

teddmaxfield.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I'm a white Gen X guy, but my parents were pretty good examples with respect to race, so turning into them still would leave me as an ally to people of color.

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We should all be aware of our surroundings & circumstances but also open to other people and ideas. Only small minded, little people want everything and everyone to be the same.

meck1951.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Du musst wissen , nur etwa 5% der Menschheit kann selbständig denken und sich ungezwungen artikulieren !

caren.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I even thought my classmates' parents were better!

I am so thoroughly disappointed in my peers. We *were* supposed to be different! WTF, ⚪️ Gen X?

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Well, I know when I went to college, it was a lot of white folks' first time going to class/living around people who were not white.

They brought their parents' attitudes to campus.

I'll leave it at that.

zeebap2.bsky.social•2 days ago

A word, indeed.

thenwmagpie.bsky.social•2 days ago

A hard pill for us white Gen Xers to swallow, but there it is.

kellumdander.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fuck.

okoyessmile.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Oooooweeee! *blinks in Black Xennial/Millennial who saw white classmates make “interesting” political posts on Facebook*

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It's quite a sight! LOL

I'm more amused by my Black classmates who are either MAGA or Bernouts.

missmielle.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Girlllll!

bzegrl1.bsky.social•1 day ago

White people will be white for every generation, believe that. I trust them as far as I can see my nose, and I wear glasses.

okoyessmile.bsky.social•11 hours ago

But when you are a kid, you don’t think like that. It’s just the friends you’re running around with… then it’s… OH!

blueheart1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think that your point is really the crux of the matter. 💯👆🏾 A privileged leopard will not choose to change its spots.

bzegrl1.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Eloquently said, my dear, eloquently said. 🤌🏾

mindbellz.bsky.social•2 days ago

This. Exactly.

drcjcarrell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Too many people who look like me grew up with Reagan and liked it.

kerryreid.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, that scene in "Risky Business" where Tom Cruise's character says he wants to help people and everyone laughs because they know he's just jerking their chain was pretty telling in retrospect.

pissyrabbit.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes.

coffeeindiana.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was just talking about how disappointed I am in my generation 😭

A bunch of people who grew up with punk and anti-government alt-rock but somehow didn't take any of the messages to heart

https://bsky.app/profile/coffeeindiana.bsky.social/post/3ljaq4cof722j

iceman0693.bsky.social•1 day ago

I saw enough growing up as one of few in the Burbs to know that they "weren't different," but I had hoped that they were at least on the right track. But then I remembered that the pervasive message in that time wasn't understanding or empathy, it was "tolerance", and it all made sense.

theevalerie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Straight facts

terrencehunter.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

marzenie.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Class of 95, grew up a white girl in the burbs... they were always shitheads ripe for the right wing. It was like 20 actual giveafuck people who were always laughed at for "acting Black" or being alt or punk. Only a few actually stuck with any ideals. It's pretty pathetic and worse as we aged

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We had basically 3 groups of white people in our class, we had the group that lived in the same lower/middle class neighborhood & all went to the same church. A lot of those people are NOT MAGA. Then we had the solidly middle class & the solidly working class ...they are MAGA.

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•1 day ago

I didn't truly understand why Black people don't trust white people on the left until recently. Almost all of my friends who were all about Black Lives Matter just 5 years ago are completely checked out. I've literally been shushed when I try to talk about what's currently happening.

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all a fad, it’s all a trend and then they get bored and move on to something else. The same thing will happen to “Free Palestine”.

delosithism.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah. I used to try to give yall chances. But I saw the effort wasn't honestly there after a point. Whenever white people ask about a perceived lack of vulnerability on my end, I now ask what they have done to earn the right to whine so much about me not opening up.

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•1 day ago

And I don't mean just not paying attention, but actively avoiding it for their "mental health" because they can't control anything anyway.

ronniecraig.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Nailed it. I tried to talk with a fellow GenX friend of 15+ years about how we white folks/women can use our privilege to help support marginalized communities, and she cut me off with almost EXACTLY that response. We're no longer speaking bc I don't keep trash friends. 😡

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well they have to protect their mental health. It’s not like people actually have to live this reality day after day lol

hopey70.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's why they are having meltdowns right now. Mentally fragile.

incjazzo.bsky.social•1 day ago

They won't have too much mental health to protect soon

2strong2silence.bsky.social•2 days ago

Veronica, they were the first generation that had to deal with a somewhat level playing field. When they discovered that whiteness wasn’t going to be enough anymore for them & their children their inner boomer came out. They essentially became what they swore they’d never be.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is exactly what happened. I watched it play out exactly this way among the people I grew up with, especially once they'd been in the job market for a while and started having kids.

cheekyginger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. So many of the ones I grew up with went that way. A handful didn't, and we're better friends now than we were even then. But so many of the others … I once knew them as people, and then they became white, if that makes sense.

piperview.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So much sense!

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely makes sense... yes.

mapsandkeys.bsky.social•1 day ago

For me, it wasn't even the job market. I saw a whole lot of my peers revert as soon as college acceptance or rejection letters started to come in.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

That... that's a good point. I didn't even think about that. You got in and your white friends peers didn't. That totally tracks.

mapsandkeys.bsky.social•1 day ago

Alysson, it was BSU in one case. Can you imagine being mad somebody got into BSU?

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

I cackled my ass off at the thought. Thank you for that.

The dumbest motherfuckers I knew got into Ball State in the '90s. I always knew I was gonna go to BSU, but I applied to IU just to make myself feel better and reassure myself that Ball State wasn't my only option. 🤣

2strong2silence.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh trust me I remember the looks when I got into schools they didn’t. I felt like saying you want to compare
GPA & SAT’s to yours? You looked for schools that played beer pong, I wanted more.

mapsandkeys.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes. I almost lost my best friend when I got an offer from her first choice and she didn't. She never could accept I was just smarter and a better student. That attitude is why we're no longer friends now.

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s the thing: we’re in the same classes so you know my grades and my work and you STILL think I “stole your spot?”

LOL

bigyahoointhelab.bsky.social•21 hours ago

My best friend and I haven’t spoken since Covid/George Floyd. She denies that white privilege is a thing.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

DAMN! That's brutal. What a bitch.

jamiesbowen.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Exactly! Same here. The only white gen-Xers I knew in HS who Aren't Republicans are LGBTQ+ 🤷🏼

tommykrasker.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Makes sense. The LGBTQ+ Gen Xers were there for the AIDS crisis, Reagan’s inaction, the deaths, the marches, the slow progress and the regular rescinding of rights. Like the LGBTQ Boomers, they smell bullshit a mile away. Small wonder they’ve been there for the Clintons, Biden and especially Harris.

jamiesbowen.bsky.social•11 hours ago

TRUTH!! I'm Damn proud of the work we did as a community, improving our turnout for Harris to 86% was amazing. But, I'm also kinda side-eyeing the 14% of us, likely white cis gay men & lesbians who didn't & trying to figure out how to motivate them to turnout for Dems too! 🤷🏼🤣😂

laurahowe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Truth. I hate what has happened to white Gen X. It’s appalling.

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•2 days ago

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. My middle school had “salt & pepper” fights and I was all like “why iS eVerYonE fIghTinG?”

Because it never occurred to me at that time people had a problem with other people because of their skin color.

genxoutraged.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair, a lot of white GenXers were captured into the cult of Reagan and “no new taxes” and never escaped

mitdasein.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m solidly Gen X (class of 90) but a lot of my classmates were boomers at heart

melissarabbsagui.bsky.social•2 days ago

Same. Just sickening. My 35th high school reunion is coming up this summer. And all I can think is I have no desire to be around all those magats.

nefariousmeans.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was one of three Black students out of a class of 500. I used to make a point of going to the reunions just to be in the photos. After seeing how many of them voted for Trump, I decided I never wanted to be in a room with them again.

zer0drift.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Basically what I think happens (as one of the white people,) every generation, the evil white people kill off as many of the cool white people as they can. It takes a few decades each time and some cycles are more successful than others.

caren.bsky.social•11 hours ago

No, kids I went to school with are racist fucking adults now. They didn't act like that when we were 8.

yourdestinyyy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same for Gen z who saw and led the charge and is now sitting back watching the tide change with my peers

i2america.bsky.social•2 days ago

substantion-igra.bsky.social•2 days ago

We expected so much better out of them…

rileycafe.bsky.social•1 day ago

White woman GenX here. Nothing but agreement and major disappointment in my peers. I thought we were gonna be THE generation that broke it.

2strong2silence.bsky.social•1 day ago

I told a high school classmate of mine that is full MAGA “Congratulations, your daughter has fewer rights than you did when we were in high school.”

dottiedino.bsky.social•1 day ago

they want that tho

they want even their own kids to suffer

rileycafe.bsky.social•1 day ago

The part I don’t get is that they don’t care. They see everything that is happening and they cheer and smirk.

beajea.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I saw a good video by a historian about fascism that explained that outcomes mean absolutely nothing. It’s all about enforcing a strict binary ideology of right v wrong in which somehow actual outcomes are not considered at all. And often might = right. Frightening.

caffeinehusky.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yes they do, evil sycophants

chadrubel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Upper end white Gen X. Grew up with Black people and music. Didn't have kids (trauma). I know it's not about me but I would raised better.

iceman0693.bsky.social•1 day ago

If so, then you were both lucky and few. You were a generation removed from folks throwing rocks at Black kids integrating schools. Meaning that your parents were in an extreme minority. Many folks ACTED like this, but it was actually a rarity.

mapsandkeys.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honey. You just set Black people and Black music out as equivalents. Think about that.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

"... raised better."

https://bsky.app/profile/alyssonfergison.bsky.social/post/3ljgkjvqqks2w

angryblerd.bsky.social•2 days ago

Big hard facts.

blindmellojelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

I saw that a while back and she's right. I'm a Black GenX'er. We grew up with them, we partied with them, we hung out and listened to music together. We even dated one another in some instances. For them to turn around and pull the same shit their parents did is hurtful and pisses us off.

sonotswedish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Raises hand 🙋🏾‍♀️

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•2 days ago

I knew what time they were on when they cried "Ya'll taking our spots!" when everyone announced where they were going to college.

sonotswedish.bsky.social•2 days ago

When we moved to Lynn Ranch in high school I realized our “bootstraps” were too expensive for their liking…

oreginal49ers.bsky.social•1 day ago

"How did you get into ___?!?"
I remember that shit.

nisslbody.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I was furious, like did they not decline to join the study groups I started or remember all the times I didn't go out because I was working on internship applications, scholarship applications, my honors thesis, etc.?

nisslbody.bsky.social•14 hours ago

After the first time, I practiced saying "Well, my grades are stellar, I have research experience with glowing recommendations from my internship supervisors, my extracurriculars show depth, and I write a superior application essay".

nisslbody.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Bonus: Nothing gets a white man angery like a Black woman telling him to his face that she's objectively higher performing than he is.

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me: Where did you apply?

Him: 1 school

Him: I’m going JC. Not going to waste my money like you

Them: I wouldn’t gotten into your school anyway. I’m white.

None came to my graduation. And wouldn’t even invite me to theirs.

blindmellojelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

I assume you went to an HBCU? ◻️folks go to Black colleges all the time.

sbeazy.bsky.social•2 days ago

No, that’s what so disrespectful. Went to UCLA.

blindmellojelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

I never heard anyone say that. At least not to my face. But I knew the grades a lot of them were getting and I wish someone would've said it.

veronicamcdonald.bsky.social•2 days ago

I heard it and I'd ask, Well did you even apply to _____?

Them: No.

Me: Then you never had a spot to begin with *duh*

blindmellojelly.bsky.social•2 days ago

Right?!

oreginal49ers.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's so much fvcking honesty in this.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•2 days ago

No one should trust us. We can't even trust each other.

oreginal49ers.bsky.social•1 day ago

I trust the real ones that ally on a regular basis. I see you.

alyssonfergison.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you.

gammareigh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, this. We be up thinking we were in harmony and then they just stabbed us in the back.

blindmellojelly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. We were left sitting there like, "Oh. None of that shit was real or sincere, huh? Ok."

gammareigh.bsky.social•1 day ago

2024 really, really put it front and center for me. They are their parents, but they think they aren't.

bunnyshelton.bsky.social•1 day ago

My friend of 25 yrs, who kept saying, you know I'm not racist became QAnon & MAGA. I cussed her out so bad bc I felt betrayed. She's a "coyote". Half white, half Chicano like my former husband. Like Bish, what are you on?