I often set in wonder about what the reaction has been about
the 1960’s and the Early 1970’s.
How much America has changed and the direction of that
change, there was some pretty cool victories in human decency, America woke up
to how bad discriminations were, how women wanted better pay, the end of the
Vietnam War, a call for humanitarian efforts all over the world. I think about
how the media described the people who worked for the change or even just
showed up at a march, some seemed vocal out spoken about what they were doing,
as they got placed in a police car.
It was a time of social change, wonderful colors, cool music
with statements like “One day I hope you will join us.” By John Lennon, it was
blasted on the news each night. ABC CBS or NBC it didn’t matter they all had
those stories, the morning news papers were filled, with story after story of
change. Then an image of a police car or police line, maybe a 10 second movie
showing how upsetting and scary social change is.
Thing is it always had that police car, painting this
picture of wrong.
I came back to the reality of today every single point of
those social changes has yet to be realized.
Peace it never had a chance the cold War only changed its
name to the Drug War, discriminations of color and social status, show the
depths of which our prisons are filled with such unequal numbers, as if to say
you won a right but if you are ever wrong your punishment will be severe.
All of this wonderful change seemed so filled with that
music, those parties, those statements that seemed so horrific to the pastor of
our church, but the results well in some way’s were great in others not so. In
some areas it felt cool to say I was a part of that.
Then I realized what was wrong, what had really happened, our
political leaders had drawn lines in willingness, they went through what the
pastor was saying and made a bunch of horrors. They used each point to find a
new way to stop that social change.
They took what we did for fun and made a War out of it. They
took that image of that police car, that complaint from the pastor and made a
War out what we did for fun. The more they did the more the pastor complained
the more they showed that police car and the bad guy in the back.
That is the Marijuana story.
Credits
Chas
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