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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat should put FEAR in the hearts of gunners was today's DIVERSITY
Suburban kids from South Florida joined with Latina/o kids from South LA, black kids from Chicago, privileged white kids from everywhere and they all agreed to pass the megaphone one to the other.
I have never seen such diversity of actors in a mission of common cause. The young people protesting the Viet Nam war may have come close, but that was a protest storm long in gathering. This one went from 6 murderous minutes in a South Florida high school to a nationwide coalition in a very few short weeks.
Their generation is larger than the Boomers. They WILL be heard.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The Diversity Generation gives me some hope.
Stinky The Clown
(67,780 posts)That was then. This is now. Since the Boomers there have been GenX GenY, Millenials.
Boomers ended the Viet Nam war.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)banking systems, massive individual greed and "I want it all" attitude, corporate corruption and malfeasance, wall street transfer of wealth to the wealthiest, insurmountable national debt and so on. Sorry, boomers got to own it!
DBoon
(22,353 posts)Boomers created the modern environmental movement
The aging remnants of the 1930s generation (Reagan) destroyed it.
Fuck you, that is not what my generation stood for.
moondust
(19,971 posts)the Korean War generation including people like Jack Welch at GE who were the bosses during the Reagan years. They helped Reagan/Republicans and Thatcher/Tories transform the world economy into neoliberalism and rewarding wealth rather than work. The boomers were mostly in their 20s and 30s during the Reagan years so they weren't calling the shots.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)as you mentioned. Boomers can also add on perpetual wars, jumbo morgages without jobs, all culminating in the lovely economic crash of 2008.
Hekate
(90,624 posts)...of Iraq. Protesting the erosion of our Constitutional rights and seeking to protect them. Protesting Trump. Supporting women's right to a full range of health care. Working for gun legislation. Attempting to build Utopia on a small scale (communes). Seeking enlightenment. Founding the environmental movement. Saving the whales.
Everywhere I go in the realm of those seeking to protect and expand human rights, I see my generation, now grown old in the fight. If you want to lay blame, look at the 1%. If you want to fight the 1%, read Mineral Man's posts, and others who have not given up.
Really? An entire generation of humanity blew it and is inexcusable, disgraceful, and disgusting?
Someone seems to have some parental rebellion issues, democratisphere.
Ferrets are Cool
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efhmc
(14,725 posts)nt
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)people you talk about. We also took the flack for supporting JFK instead of Nixon. I voted for jimmy Carter, Clinton, Hillary,Barack Obama and 2 dem Senators in my state.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)DBoon
(22,353 posts)Stating untruths and referencing them multiple times does not make them true.
You have no idea what people of my generation went through.
Hekate
(90,624 posts)That's how we came to know we were Democrats at an early age, and why we are Democrats today.
Hekate
(90,624 posts)Many, many died.
One-percenters like George W. Bush were privileged to "serve" in the Texas Air National Guard.
John Kerry came home from fighting in Vietnam and testified to Congress: "How can you ask a mother to let her son be the last one to die for a lie?" He was still very young.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)too. The rights enjoyed by young women today came from their Mother's and Grandmothe'rs hard work. Gay marriage? Plenty of good happened as well.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,780 posts)Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)FakeNoose
(32,617 posts)Seriously, I kid you not, and it surprised me too. I went to the march in Pittsburgh and I saw at least as many people in their 60's and 70's as teenage students marching. I'm 67, and I was with my siblings who are all over 60. I can tell the different between a 16-year-old and a 60-year-old.
Not to make this into an age-thing but I saw adults of all ages marching. Some were probably teachers or parents of the students, and I'd put them around 40ish-50ish. There were young couples with toddlers in baby carriages. The photos that are being posted on DU now are showing a full range of ages in the marchers. This was an awesome thing we did today!
Lonestarblue
(9,963 posts)along with many others my age and older, including some in wheelchairs. Lots of baby boomers, along with many young people with their families. It didnt hurt that hometown boy Matthew Mcconaughey spoke! This topic is one that people from all walks of life can get behind.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)although our police forces need to catch up.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)Hekate
(90,624 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)Hekate
(90,624 posts)Just sayin'.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)I hated others doing it to me and I vowed I would never do it........we all have our "crosses to bear" - the bottom line has ALWAYS been WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER
malaise
(268,863 posts)It was amazing - organized in five weeks and three days since that horrific slaughter.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)This is our hearts exploding with pride and joy and hope:
Have never even imagined a day like today, I want these kids to adopt me
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)when she said something like, let's never forget why people are listening to us. It's because we come from an affluent community. But in the next breath she had everyone on the same page. And then she came up with the slogan of the day: "America can't be great, if we don't feel safe."
Stinky The Clown
(67,780 posts)And my initial reaction was you describe. It lasted less that 10 seconds until she was crystal clear what she was about.
The diversity was about every measure by which people get divided. They were all together today.
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)These kids are so aware and understand the issues so much better than we did. Granted, I think our generation was heroic with the anti-war movement, but it was the first time anything like that was ever tried and the status quo managed to turn the mistakes against the movement.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)and a very ominous sign for ReTrumplicans
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Hekate
(90,624 posts)IronLionZion
(45,410 posts)I like liberal marches, the people are very polite and friendly. When the Tea Party, Anti-choice, anti-gay groups are in town they are such assholes and ruin the day of anyone walking by.
IronLionZion
(45,410 posts)which affects all sorts of people everywhere.
I really enjoyed the open mockery of the NRA and their puppet politicians and calls to vote them out. It was awesome.
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)Cha
(297,059 posts)JPK
(651 posts)I was in Miami Beach at the '72 Republican Convention. I was in Flamingo Park with the Yippies, Zippies and the hippies. Probably all white as I recall. There with the VVAW, SDS, you name the groups. We marched all over the place protesting the war. I remember marching in front of the Fountain Blue Hotel with all those well dressed republican's going to their dinners while the Florida State Troopers, I don't recall any black officers, surrounding the hotel in riot gear and were salivating like dogs waiting to be let off their leash to beat us the hell up with their billy clubs.
I thought that was a happening. This is so different. We have truly become a melting pot through desegregation. It has been painful along the way sometimes but it looks to me like the wisdom of those that forced this country to do this, we are reaping the promise. These kids are so amazing. All of them. The torch has been passed. These kids have found their voice, their understanding, their purpose.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Initech
(100,059 posts)The gun nuts are like Ron Burgundy in this regard.