Posted on 04/27/2019 1:30:44 PM PDT by Maceman
Do they show any interest in political issues?
Sometimes you’re just too busy with other things as a young adult.
Segregation featured black neighborhoods being served by black businesses, black schools free of education-hating thugs, and lower levels of crime. What an awful heritage...
I didn’t become politically aware until in my mid-thirties.
Saved myself a lot of grief, I think.
It’s covered, quite a lot, in old movies.
LOL...you need the /s at the end of the start of your rant.
Actually, there was far LESS segregation, where I lived/went to school, when I was growing up, than there is today and the races got along just fine.
And without a BLACK HISTORY MONTH, we learned far MORE black history, at all grade levels, than is "taught" today.
“The SDSers were mostly BOOMERS!”
Are you sure? Tom Hayden was involved in founding SDS and drafting their Port Huron manifesto and he was born in 1939.
Of course SDS lasted all through the 1960s so it would have picked up a load of ‘Boomers who weren’t happy about the prospect of being drafted. Funny how student radicalism ended at the same time that the draft did.
Generation Z here...
Hi.
I didn’t give you an answer last time, but you are getting close to a valid sample size and will put myself in the “Boomer” category, although I was never a “Bubble Head.”
5.56mm
Missed the first thread- X-er here. I think the numbers you have are fairly accurate.
“So where are X’ers and others hanging out and talking politics?”
The 2% doesn’t bother me so much. The youth are more likely to be in the social media/reddit type crowd. I’m a late baby boomer but was politically indifferent until my mid-20’s. I really liked what I heard from Reagan at the time and I began to get more interested. Then in 1990 I found this guy on the radio named Rush who really was saying the things I had been feeling for a long time.
This is why it’s important that we don’t let the left shut down conservative speakers. These are the crowds that need to hear from all sides and not just the indoctrination message of the left.
I’d like to read about what it was really like, moreso than what is depicted in old movies.
Trump is the generation before the boomers
I am pre boomer
My sister is boomer
Based on my familiarity with Free Republic, I think pre boomers are under represented in your statistics
One of the ironies of liberalism’s forced desegregation mania is that it killed off a thriving black middle class. I remember Washington DC having a black high school famous for the excellence of its academic program. Might have been Dunbar.
It was a joke.
They were also called the “silent generation.”
The x,y,z, generations can’t communicate with the boomers and otherwise for the most part, unless they have a grasp of history and this nation. Add in the breakdown of the family and the me generational attitudes they don’t much care.
Therefore I agree ....they want to change this nation but have no idea what to change it too other than everyman for himself and one for all all for one globalist drumbeat.
no, the great ones preceeded boomers by a generation
The great ones were adults during the depression and WW II
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