Reply #8: I long for the 60's

[me b zola]

I was just a child, I was born in '63. But the hope, optimism that people could make a difference, and mass movements was a very special time in our history.

Since then corporate amerika has taken over the media, so even when 500,000 of us march on Washington, no one sees it because that is an image that corporate amerika doesn't want people to see. Instead they showed a brief clip from a camera angle that makes it look as though we may have been just a hundred people, and give equal time to less than a hundred people who were there to oppose us--making it look as though there was an equal sentiment on both sides of the issue.

The gop hadn't infiltrated churches and turned them into political groups back in the 60's. Many people of faith naturally opposed the death penalty and war, and supported civil rights. Some people may have been bigots and still went to church, but at least they did not hide behind their church as they worked to oppress others. Now churches have been turned into instruments of hatred & oppression, and Jesus has been tossed into the gutter as I am forced to hear politicians "preach" to me.