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.
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!”
Check out this little historical footnote to remind us of the excitement during the 1960s. We don’t even remember this stuff anymore.
At 3 a.m. on July 24, (Governor George) Romney and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh called U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and requested that federal troops be sent.
Clark indicated that to do so, Romney would have to declare a state of civil insurrection, which the governor was loath to do from fear that insurance companies would seize upon it as a reason to not cover losses due to the riot.
Elements of the 82nd and 101st U.S. Army Airborne Divisions were mobilized outside of the city. With the situation worsening, Romney told Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, “We gotta move, man, we gotta move.”
Near midnight on July 24, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized thousands of paratroopers to enter Detroit. Johnson went on national television to announce his actions and made seven references to Romney’s inability to control the riot using state and local forces.