The cancel culture and PC. Unfortunately its all about no give and take or effort to compromise for the sake of unity and respect. Not to mention we are now training up youngsters to pick a side and if its not the correct one they'll be scorned on the net and school.
Probably gonna use this as the Mother/Son dance at my wedding. May just do the second half (what a wonderful world)
I was an adult and loved that song along with: San Francisco - Scott McKenzie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U
Get Together was a protest song written after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Remember that? Vietnam? Kent State? Murder of Fred Hampton? Uprisings in cities? Overt racism of Nixon's Southern Strategy and War on Drugs? In 1970 when John Lennon wrote Imagine, 50 years after passage of 19th Amendment for federal elections, women still couldn't vote in state elections in three states. Marital rape, wife beating and sexual harassment were legal. Same sex relations between consenting adults in private were a crime in every state. Colleges had formal policies to limit female students. There were no female newscasters, mail carriers, DJs. Yes, some things are worse. Hate radio. There was more comity in government because they were all rich white men who had attended the same prep schools. Planet is worse off. Nixon had commissioned a panel to look at environmental and national security. They concluded exploding population would cause massive dislocation and recommended an aggressive grass roots international campaign for family planning focused on educating and empowering women. Nixon buried the report. He was trying to win heavily Catholic white ethnics to Republican party with racist appeals and didn't want to muddy the waters with talk of birth control. There were no Black head coaches in any professional sport. They were considered incapable. Please. That was no golden age.
This is supposed to be a thread for positivity and to not argue, point fingers, call others out, etc. Im hoping we can all maintain that course.
Downer? So many of these things have been improved and we're mostly aware of those which have not. That's uplifting. The downer would be returning to those days...
