The US being the 'free-st' place on earth at anytime is quite the misnomer. Sure, you can be 'free' if you are white, wealthy, oh and land owning. Tale as old as time. Sure, you can protest, but many many other countries have far surpassed the US on that one, and have been doing it a whole lot longer.

Hold your horses, segregation was abolished in 1954, not sure US has ever been close from "the freest place on earth".

As a successful nonwhite person in the US, AbsurdCensor made an infantilizing comment. Non white people have flocked here in droves because of the freedom afforded to anyone to become wealthy. I agree that we are back sliding (tax burden, regulatory burden, political repression, etc.) but it is absurd to make it about race and say that it wasn't once the freest place to start a business and even express yourself.

It never was. The US is under as much propaganda as NK they just refuse to recognise it from the inside, which is simply propaganda working.

As long as you were a straight white Christian male, maybe.

What time period are you using as an example?