Reply #126: not so

[Two Americas]

I think that as late as 1968 there were 12 hippies in Detroit. There were thousands of us working for Civil Rights, to end the war, fighting poverty and organizing in the unions. Still we never had "sheer numbers" to achieve anything, but we were getting there. Then all of our leaders were systematically murdered. Then suddenly, everyone was a hippy and the political movement was crushed - crushed, not abandoned.

We were a minority then, despised and abused, and have been ever since.

People were calling my generation baby boomers before I was even in high school. The phrase would have died off had the right wing not continued to use to to discredit not the hippies, not everyone from that generation, no, rather to crush and discredit those who were fighting for peace and justice and human rights and who were fired, thrown out of school, jailed, gassed, beaten and ostracized for that.

Read the real history. Don't fall for the MSM narrative about this, and don't spread the right wing propaganda about it.