Tim Wise: To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos.

[Random Boomer]

65. It was also a mythic representation of women

Aside from the lily-white neighborhood, you also had June Cleaver serving breakfast to her family while dressed up in heels and pearls. She glided effortlessly through her house, no hair out of place, and looked immaculate even while cleaning.

The show, in so many ways, was a idyllic fantasy of what childhood could be like as long as no real humans were involved.