What the other guy said. This is definitely a common phrase with AAVE, thus, asking the question, “do people really talk like this”, would imply that the asker is considering the poster to be inferior in some way. The racist piece being that it’s pinpointing a dialect spoken, typically, by a specific race and calling it dumb.

I was sort of being sarcastic but lemmy users are a special sort and definitely can’t read that.

Racism not welcome, please vacate the premises.

People really fall for the “America used to be great” propaganda, huh?

Did no one learn anything in middle school history? We definitely covered ✨the 1900s✨, which featured multiple world wide depressions/ressessions that the US was not exempt from, two world wars where millions of people died, the great dust bowl and famine, and plenty of corruption. Most of which happened just before or during our grandparents lives. It’s not like we’re talking about the colonial era of this continent or something.