What Will They Write About Us?

Back in the 1950's and 60's, only the grocery store and gas station were opened on the weekends. Back when family time mattered. The black family wasn't perfect but it was more solid. Education was valued but manual labor wasn't devalued. Americans paid cash for what we purchased. There were absolute rights and wrongs. Language was not so coarse. People were less material-driven and self-centered. Males knew how to be men and females knew how to be women. Chivalry was expected. Fraternities and sororities played a major role in what was done in the community. Movements lasted for longer dawn a week. Cursive was taught in school. Sex was not the driving force of all entertainment.

The problems with that time period:
It was legal to beat your wife. Rapes were often swept under the rug. The church was a center for gay-bashing. The way you looked in church was more important to many than your relationship with Christ. Women could not move up in society. Men could not express their emotions openly, causing them to hold in their anger. Segregation, though it yielded many positives, led to hate and inequality which allowed the system to be more to minorities' detriment than our benefit.

Why couldn't we find a balance? Why did we have to go off the deep end? Now we have a society that lacks a moral compass. What will it be like in 20 years when I am raising teenagers? I can only wonder where we are going from here...

Litera scripta manet. - Unknown