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30 Jan 12 at 12 pm

undercoverterrorist:

siddharthasmama:

racismschool:

There are things that white people talk about that few PoC talk about. “The Good Ole Days” is one of them. For you, the good ole days are when politics were clean, prices were cheap, family meant something and everybody was happy. For PoC, today is the…

This also totally applies to the 90s and riot grrrl.

It died out for a number of reasons including racism and cissexism. I don’t understand why people want to revive it.

Had an argument about this the other day with someone. They had said, “I wish I had been born in the twenties.”

Oh WOW, have fun wishing everyone who wasn’t a white, straight, able bodied cis dude had the few tights they have now taken away, flapper girl! OH THOSE GREAT DAYS

And she didn’t understand why I was “taking it so seriously.”

The (*G.)oddamazon: “The Good Ole Days” and Other Dreams We Don’t Share
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