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jlf1961 -> RE: No lives matter (7/8/2016 12:48:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Kirataquote:
ORIGINAL: jlf1961
welcome back to the sixties.
Hey, don't knock the sixties! Woo-hoo! Best years of my life (as well as I can remember). [:D]
Right, the wonderful sixties, which gave us the Watts riots, Kent State massacre, the events that led up to the reign of terror on the Pine Ridge reservation, and Walter Cronkite giving the daily casualty numbers from the war in Vietnam.
You may think that sums up the sixties, but all it really does is show us the filter through which you view the world.
K.
No, it does not sum up the sixties, but it sums up the major points that history addresses from the sixties. The counter culture movement attempted to bring about change, and when peaceful protests failed, splintered into various factions which did use violence to facilitate the change that was desired.
While it is true that the sixties brought about major changes in civil rights, it brought with it some major problems. Three men who could have fundamentally led this country into an era of greatness were assassinated for no more reason than they did support and promote change.
Yeah, we landed on the moon.
Guess what? I would have preferred to see the billions spent on that one achievement spent on dealing with the real social issues of the era that still affect this country to this day.
The sixties did more to polarize the people of this country than to unite them, and then to top it off, we have a crop of politicians on both sides of the fence who are doing nothing to make the changes necessary to stop the continued self powered spiral into the toilet.
The GOP screams about Obama not being hard on terrorists, their presumed choice for president is talking about building walls, banning entire religions from entering this country, putting all Muslims on some list as dangerous unless they start informing on their fellow Muslims, and the famous "Stand By Your cheating husband" bitch who was so concerned with her political future that she didnt dump the cheating asshole she was married to, who is now trying to prove that she is the white woman who will stop the big bad GOP from moving the US back 100 years politically.
K you and I rarely agree on anything political in nature, but I have to admit that you do press valid issues and most of the time, try to understand the points others try to make, even proposing compromises to find common ground (something your detractors either fail to mention or ignore completely.)
To be honest, if there were actually people with that ability and attitude were to run for office, I would be the first to vote for them.
Unfortunately, whether you wish to admit it or not, most if not 99% of politicians today speak to the fears of their constituents, thus creating and continuing the problems, not solving them.
This country needs leaders that will effect constructive change without alienating a large portion of the citizens. I am talking changes in law enforcement, civil rights, economic, environmental and social change.
And until we get them, there will be cops shooting unarmed African American males, hispanic males, who ever seems to ignite their rage at the moment. We will have drugs and drug related deaths, we will have gang violence, we will have people who should not own a water pistol going to walmart and buying a gun.
We, as a country do not need to ban anything or anyone, we need to unite and say with one voice, the shit stops now.
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