I think I may be a little slow.
The "nostalgia" craze seems to be rampant on Facebook and other areas of the Internet. Little posts asking "Remember when cars didn't have seatbelts" with a photo of kids peering out the back windows of a red station wagon, or a picture of an old Simplicity pattern showing the Mod 1960s dresses and wanting to know "What was your look in the 1960s?" Another picture shows the Mousketeers: Karen, Cubby, Anette, Darlene and the rest, and the heading on the post proclaims "I always wanted to be a Mousketeer!"
Most of this crap is just click bait, but it only recently--as I said, I think I may be slow!--dawned on me that every one of those happy faces in all these nostalgia trend pieces is white.
Of course there are also a lot of wistful pieces about old TV shows from the 1950s, such as The Andy Griffith Show, where all the cast was white, and the women knew their place was in the kitchen.
I'm probably just being paranoid, but I can't help feeling that there could be a subliminal and malevolent agenda behind all this pervasive nostalgia.
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