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OT: For those of you who loved the 60s
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Kathie
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Elizabeth
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Why don't you tell us exactly what you think of it??
I gather you didn't think it was terrific, but a piece of crap??? Why?
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Well I liked the music - but I'm not sure why it's a piece of crap lol You'll have to explain, I genuinely do not know why it is crap.
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Though I forgot to mention, if I shocked, that's a good thing lol
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I'm labeling it crap because of the propagandistic nature of the last frame, that the illigitimacy rate was 3% (for white people, yes, not for the whole population and how many young women were forced into marriage to keep it that low?), that the divorce rate was lower (so women, who had fewer options to support themselves than today, got trapped in loveless or violent marriages), that immigrants learned English right away (guess they never met any of the Cubans who came in 1959) and nobody wanted to be a hyphenated American (except African-Americans, I guess, but who asked them what they wanted?). I could go on, but I think you get my drift.
Elizabeth (besides, since it came from Sheena, I kept waiting for the punch line!)
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If all of the above is true, then it is crap. I clearly did not read/watch closely enough. I did see the bit about learning English but judged that to be true of the times.
Sorry, you are right, that does not voice my opinion as you rightly judge, I will watch again and return, tail between legs no doubt.
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I did like the music. Could have done with out the rest. C
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You are right, I did glide past that and do not agree. They maybe were the facts but not because they are to be praised, but because that was how it was and rigidly so.
The illegitimacy rate was that way because of shotgun marriages, the ability of the wealthy to take off for Japan or Sweden and rid themselves of a pregnancy and it was just left for the unlucky to suffer an unwanted pregnancy.
I was lured by the sirenistic music, mea culpa.
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I was a young, married woman in the 60's and I agree with nearly everything you say except for calling Black people African-American. The only "nice" word I remember being used was Negro. Maybe it was different in other parts of the country.
Lucille
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*chuckle* Oh, yes, it was different in other parts of the country. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and one day in the early 60s when we were visiting my mama's family in Georgia I asked one of my cousins (we were all under 10 at this time) something about "that Negro man walking down the street," and they looked at me like I had said a horribly vulgar word and said in a shocked whisper, "That's not what they are, they're COLORED people!" *LOL*
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And I grew up in La La Land on the Left coast during the 1960's -- graduated in 1964. Negro was the accepted term when I was young and
*EVERYTHING* was integrated. I could never understand just why parents were getting so upset about their kids having to go to school with negro kids since I had been doing it for as long as I could remember. The whole thing isn't crap, it's just something that is telling people what the Sixties were like for the *ruling majority* of the country. Of course, it's convenient that the guy who put it together fails to mention just *why* things were apparently "better". Regardless, it was a better and freer time than 40 years earlier just as this is "apparently" a better and freer time than 40 years earlier. I will have to agree with the sentiment that the 1960's were the beginning of the end as far as "innocence" is concerned. My generation (the baby boomers born in the mid to late 1940's after the end of WW2) was a great one for social awareness and reform but absolutely terrible-- IN GENERAL -- as parents. I lay a lot of the blame for beginning the slide down the slippery slope of excessive "Me First" smack at the feet of my generation! Regardless, the music and photos, etc. were great. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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Absolutely. My first playground kiss was from a black boy, and no one even batted an eye.
Some outsiders decided we needed our consciousness raised, and started a race riot. My best friend and I weren't sure what was going on, so we just wandered over and stood next to another friend. My Guardian Angel (see "black boy" above) called a cease-fire, because he was not going to throw stuff at me, and as long as Charlie was switching sides, everyone else rearranged to get all their friends on the same side.
How do you throw a race riot when both sides are fully integrated?
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Eventually found it at
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Yes, that's it. Brat is right, the last page is rather like those net things that come round saying "I survived being a child who was not strapped in a car seat" ~ while it is true, it wasn't necessarily good or justified. Music was nice though lol
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Easy -- being integrated didn't mean being "equal". It just meant that the black population could go into any store or restaurant, etc. and black kids went to school with white kids. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at
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I immediately caught the stuff you labeled crap and wondered how they were going to end the film. Oh well ...
Lotta crap going around these days:
The recent Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Dianna Ross was so sanitized that the Supremes were never mentioned and a picture was flashed of her mentoring activities but Michael Jackson, accused but unproven pedophile, wasn't identified. (I'd say it was white bread but then someone would say I was a racist)
PBS's pioneers of television spent an inordinate amount of time in the
60's and I have no idea why Andy Williams was showcased but Ernie Kovacs wasn't mentioned at all.