Posted on 08/22/2014 7:21:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Give it time............
Not really. In the 1960s, most Americans shared common values about the importance of liberty, the rule of law and the Constitution. Most high school graduates had at least a basic understanding of American history, the founding documents, and the major events in our past.
Most Americans were proud to be American, and the communist far left was the lunatic fringe.
Now we live in a legally mandated "diverse" society in which all cultures are equally beautiful except American culture, which is routinely trashed as our nation is vilified in our public schools, universities, the media and our politicians.
We have a president and an attorney general who are outright anti-American leftists, as are far too many congressional reps and senators.
Most Americans have no understanding of American history, and far too many don't even know who we fought against in the American revolution.
Our founders are dismissed as archaic dead white slaveholders who have little wisdom to offer our "modern" society.
Our nation is staggering under unpayable debt, which our politicians believe is the path to our economic salvation, while our credit rating is pretty much trashed.
We are the laughing stock of the world and our enemies no longer fear or respect us, and our long-standing allies no longer trust us -- with good reason.
I could go on, but I'm getting too depressed.
So why were they violent back then if there was no welfare state established yet?
It’s interesting to contrast where we are with how things were back then.
But Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et. al. are all full of it.
As far as issues of complaint, such as police brutality, how police treat blacks, etc. we are a world away from how things were decades ago.
If anything, in today’s politically correct world, police bend over backwards when dealing with blacks, so as not to see situations blow up into confrontations.
More and more comes out, and we see Michael Brown was not a choir boy, had a physical confrontation with the cop, beat up the cop, and he was killed as a result. We still need to wait for all the evidence to come out.
However, it is clearly NOT a case of a random white cop, who has nothing better to do, than shoot an innocent young black man who was minding his own business. Yet the media and Sharpton and Jackson would have us believe that is exactly what happened here. They are all liars.
Most everything was more daunting in the 1960s than now. The difference is the lack of capacity to cope now.
I have been telling my kids these punks don’t know how to riot. It seems their “heart is not into it.”
Bring back the draft.....you’ll see some enthusiastic mayhem.
in the Detroit riot, 600,000 blacks were confined to living in a very small area of the city, literally living on top of each other. L.B.J. promised them the world, and when it didn’t materialize, a lot of Major cities went up. Detroit Police also had a special unit called the “Big 4”...they really cracked heads....
Uh...No! The verdict is preordained...the fix is in. Anyone who really believes that “Justice” is involve will soon learn “Just Us” is the coin of the realm...OJ!
Spot on. Slipping and falling is a minor thing if you’re 18, it can be fatal if you’re 90. America is weak. Little events can have much bigger consequences.
If the cop is smart he will leave the country after he gets out of the hospital.
Maybe you don't realize it, but that's a damning indictment of the culture surrounding the (illegal) saloon. "Say 'no' to us and we'll riot." That's a sick culture.
William Ayers and his band of marry marxists were 30 miles away in Ann Arbor.
That's the other key ingredient, and the one ignored by most commentators on the topic. The '60s race riots were ALL engineered, fomented, and driven by professional out of town agitators. They were most certainly not 'spontaneous'.
One of my favorite cartoons from back then was...A white man is cleaning is double barrel shotgun in anticipation of the riot. His wife says..
“For heaven’s sake John, lets just put a SOUL BROTHER sign in the window!”
I got pulled over by the ‘big four’ once on the way to a softball game with most of the team crammed in the car. They thought we were going to a gang fight. The two big harness cops pulled the seats out of the car while the two ‘dicks’ grilled us about the ball bats in the trunk. When they found balls, mitts and catchers’ gear too, they climbed back in their plain black Buick sedan and left us with the job of reassembling my car.
“Most Americans were proud to be American, and the communist far left was the lunatic fringe. “
The communists were much more prevalent than a lunatic fringe. We were only taught about the communists in Russia, not the ones in the US.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.