It doesn't matter what statistics this professor digs up on the 1950s - the 50s are remembered fondly for the general sense of optimism, confidence, and national pride. Yes it was better for white people, but that doesn't change anything. Suburbia was born, millions of families moved from poverty stricken rural areas, and America felt as though it could do anything. Break the sound barrier, go to space, cure Polio.
Liberal professors obsessed with identity politics and historical revisionism just wouldn't get it.
China is going through the same kind of boom today. 75% of the country is still quite poor, but seeing the other 25% lifted from forced, agrarian poverty into a comparatively wealthy middle class fuels optimism and national pride. Doesn't matter that the growth leaves out the Muslim poor or most Tibetans, etc. This will be remembered as a golden age for China.
Liberal professors obsessed with identity politics and historical revisionism just wouldn't get it.
China is going through the same kind of boom today. 75% of the country is still quite poor, but seeing the other 25% lifted from forced, agrarian poverty into a comparatively wealthy middle class fuels optimism and national pride. Doesn't matter that the growth leaves out the Muslim poor or most Tibetans, etc. This will be remembered as a golden age for China.