Timing is everything. If I told you in 1995 that Ice Cube now starred in family-friendly films and Bill Cosby was in jail for multiple sexual assaults, you’d say “hey, I think you mixed those names up.” Timing.
These next several posts are examples of things that were totally fine and acceptable at the time, but now it’s hard to even wrap your head around it. You ever rewatch commercials from the ’70s? Yikes.