Were things better in the 50s

I know I am probably going to get severely attacked for this. Aside from the human rights violation Black people should have never been treated the way they were .

Do you think it was better when families were a priority and mothers were at home ? When kids could play safely outside until the street lights came on? When they could play Cowboys and Indians and ride their bikes, practically anywhere.? When people actually stood for the national anthem with their hand over their heart ? Law-enforcement was respected.? And going to church on Sunday was a priority?

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

Define better. Rather than kids being traumatized with duck and cover drills for active shooters they were for nuclear holocaust; mothers being forced to stay home because of the misogynist views of their husbands (as my mother was although she had the college degree and marketable skill for a better paying job) or because two incomes are required because the middle class has been squeezed out of existence; law enforcement ran unchecked on the segments of the community most needing them or are being forced to going back to community-based & involved policing, but for the ENTIRE community?