“The 90s and 2000s were the same, only difference were cell phones”- how true is this?

[Bboystyle]

2020 and on is some of the worse times to be alive

 

[Spiider]

2020 and on is some of the worse times to be alive

Worse than the Jim Crow Era, slavery or earlier?

 

[Xtraz2]

no one said the 90's were perfect but holistically, people were doing better. the violence in the 90's was concentrated in certain communities, if you didn't live there, you weren't affected. gangs? that's even more local - like wearing red/blue and saying cuz wasn't an issue up here in Oakland, while that would get you chopped in certain LA hoods. 9/11, the war, bush's election, and the surge of white collar crime + widening wealth gap were things that happened in the begining of the decade and only got worse - people felt the pain in housing costs (that's when a lot of black families started being displaced from cities), gas prices went crazy multiple times, people lost 401k's and pensions due to shyt like enron and worldcomm...yall bugging if you say the macro-socioecominc climate of the 00's and 90's was the same. like most decades, it takes about 2 years for things to feel different than the last, by 02, things were very different than 92-99

Oakland was worse in the early 90s

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

cap. even as a teen i felt the 2000's were a lot "whiter" than the 90s with peak Martin, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Cuba Gooding Jr, Denzel, etc

lot of black writers/directors will tell you shyt suddenly dried up after the heyday of the late 80s/90s.

i do appreciate the goofiness of the 2000s more in retrospect (compared to the bleakness/hedonism of today) and i like 2000s r&b more now as an adult

 

[010101]

nothing changes but sense of perspective*

 

[xXOGLEGENDXx]

That is not entirely wrong. It really wasn't until the recession that things started to change. The 2000s was just a bad 90s sequel

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

The sweet spot was when MySpace was popping and Facebook didn't blow up yet.

everyone always forgets how facebook was originally only for college students, you had to have a .edu email to use it for the first few years when it started. i been on it since it began and seen when things changed up, when non college students could join.

 

[Bboystyle]

Worse than the Jim Crow Era, slavery or earlier?

In comparison to the 90s, and early/mid 2000s. In cimparison to what we coli users lived through.Who the fukk is alive posting on this site that lived through them eras

Cant believe i had to explain this

 

[BrothaZay]

cap. even as a teen i felt the 2000's were a lot "whiter" than the 90s with peak Martin, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Cuba Gooding Jr, Denzel, etc

lot of black writers/directors will tell you shyt suddenly dried up after the heyday of the late 80s/90s.

i do appreciate the goofiness of the 2000s more in retrospect (compared to the bleakness/hedonism of today) and i like 2000s r&b more now as an adult

How could this be when black culture dominated 2000s

 

[Spiider]

In comparison to the 90s, and early/mid 2000s. In cimparison to what we coli users lived through.Who the fukk is alive posting on this site that lived through them eras

Cant believe i had to explain this

You just said this was one of the worst times to be alive. It didn’t sound like you were just talking about our lifetime. I agree with you though

 

[WaveMolecules]

conservative rage we see now stems from the 92 election. theyve hated dems ever since. nothings been the same.

 

[Bboystyle]

You just said this was one of the worst times to be alive. It didn’t sound like you were just talking about our lifetime. I agree with you though

For us ,yes. Not in general though

 

[Brandon M.]

man in 1990's , people was literally outside ALL THE TIME, even in the fukking snow in the blizzard of 1996 we as all outside....

i was a child , i was outside, all the other children were outside

thats the 1990s.

at some point kids stopped going outside in the 2000's and it's gotten worse now

 

[Brandon M.]

nikkas in here should not be underestimating how fly the vibes was in the 90's b.

 

[Dynamite James]

This quote obviously came from someone who wasn’t old enough to experience the 90s but trying to cope. I will say I miss the 2000s. In real time I hated it. As you get older you will appreciate the “perceived” worst of times. Every period has their bad or good. Saying all that… the origInal quote is false