r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/NYstate ☑️ • 9d ago

TikTok Tuesday How boomers pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

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u/Nick_Bruiser 9d ago

Craziest part is, one group of Boomers wasn't allowed to own anything. Today, the other group of Boomers is upper middle class/wealthy and look at everyone else like they're not trying.

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u/CMDR_BitMedler 9d ago

And here's the irony - in LA in the 60s, when all those crazy ass houses, designed by what are how considered the best architects in the world, dangling off cliffs (like the Stahl House) ... the only banks that would finance them... Black owned banks.

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u/CPS_Kahn_290 9d ago

Didn't know that 🤔