detano inipo wrote:During the Hippy years things changed for the better. The races mingled, the pot made everybody smile. The rednecks didn't like it one bit.
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White people from New York, mostly Jewish, went South to help blacks get some equality. They were idealistic and brave. Vicious dogs bit their legs and brutal policemen kicked in their ribcages.
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White people were killed because they were 'nigger-lovers'. A very sad time for all of us.
Translation--you weren't around then, and you don't know what you're talking about. Many, many people other than Jews from New York went south to work for civil rights. Two Jewish men from New York were murdered, Goodman and Schwerner--it was a claim by segregationist propagandists that all the civil rights workers who came south were "Jews from New York." Too bad you fall for such propaganda. The vast majority of civil rights activists murdered in the 1960s were blacks, both from the South and the North. The year following the murders of Goodman, Schwerner and James Chayne (a black man from Mississippi), Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a housewife from Michigan, was murdered, and the case became particularly vicious, because an FBI informant was in the car with the murderer, and the FBI response was to launch a smear campaign against Mrs. Liuzzo.
Saying that "the races mingled" during the "hippy era" equally shows your ignorance. Black and white people came together as a result of the civil rights movement--it had nothing to do with pot or hippies. A great many other blacks and whites developed deep antipathies because of the civil rights movement, and because of race riots in American cities in the 1960s. Smoking pot never solved any social problems, and only created other, personal problems for those who smoked it. The times were very unpleasant and polarized--for hippies and "red necks."
You don't know what the hell you're talking about much of the time, but this was a particularly idiotic post.
