No, I am correct and many baby boomers agree..sure there are some good spots, but overall the Baby Boomers have FUCKED UP
If only
thinking you are correct could make it so.
Your logic has more holes than Swiss cheese and lacks cohesion. You are a pretty intelligent guy Parker, and I respect you. However, blanket states usually end up in creating false equivalencies and broad, sweeping generalizations that cannot be substantiated.
Many boomers will NOT all agree that they take have to take the responsibility for the following generations fuck-ups. Nor should they.
And I never said that the Civil rights era was a bad thing...I said that those people act like it's the same, when it's not...
This people want to march and what not and talk about racism, when it's black men who are being shot by black men, black men dealing drugs, and killing their neighborhoods, black men not graduating from HS---I beleive the percentage is 45%...The problems now are eduaction, drugs and violence...racism exists, but there are bigger problems hat need to be addressed...the reason why it's not...is because it's us hurting each other, and the is no white boogey man to blame. I am thankful for that movement. But they want to hand over the torch, they sure hell don't act like it...
You most certainly DID denigrate the demonstrations and mass mobilization that occurred during the Civil Rights era with your asinine asseveration.
You are turning the discussion into an issue of
African-American baby boomers. My points were certainly not based on such a narrow racial demographic. I am thinking with a significantly broader scope...the overwhelming population of boomers are NOT Black, as should be obvious given that Blacks are a minority of the U.S. population. I am not sure why you chose it take your assertion in that direction, as that limits the scope of your original premise.
The whole issue of the original vanguard of Civil Rights leaders being reluctant to pass the baton is something you may want to create another thread to discuss. I am not going there...again, your blanket statement was off base. Many of those Civil Rights leaders are PRE-baby boomer in age anyway.
Back to what I was stating, when you grow up with kids who have everything handed to them, and then talk about how they got into a fight with their mom or dad..a actual fight, or why dad didn't give them the BMW, but got them a Honda instead, When you witness mothers trying to outdo their daughters and and tells their moms to shut up...and this is not a isolated thing...My mother was a teacher for 40+ yrs, and she has seen the change...
This is another exaggeration...for every family who had that situation you presuppose, there are TEN families who did not raise their children in this manner. A completely spurious and disjointed avouchment.C'mon...you had children of the upper middle class and wealthy class spoiling their children prior to the boomers too! BOTH of my parents taught in public schools and at the university level. There are many dynamics that have created change in today's youth. But you are going to lay ALL of that at the feet of the boomer generation? I don't accept it.
The Baby boomers thought of nothing but themselves for 40 plus yrs, and now the Chickens are coming home to roost (And you know damn well that if Malcolm and MLK saw how their legacies have gone they would be very disappointed--especially with people who try to pimp the Civil Rights Movement0
All in All, it's there and you've seen, my generation has seen it
Bringing issues of the environment and pollution was done for FUTURE generations as much their own. Fighting for gender equality was done so that FUTURE generations of women would be able to pursue careers and step into senior management in ways previously unavailable to them. Affirmative action and other civil rights legislation helped women, minorities (people like YOU) get the chance to pursue higher education, live where you want to live and not be red lined into a particular side of town. Demonstrating against the Vietnam War when it was not the politically correct thing to do was so that FUTURE generations would not continue to have blood on their hands for being citizens of an American imperialist nation. The boomers were the first to join the Kennedy administration's Peace Corps, going to underdeveloped countries around the world and trying to make a difference.
Malcolm and Martin would be disappointed in a LOT of things about America today, but unlike you, they would not lay all the blame on the kids that came up 20 years after them. EVERYONE is responsible for what is both good and bad in America today. That includes YOU and your generation that has in many ways forgotten completely what it means to take a stand for cause that is greater than themselves and may not have a personal financial benefit.
In many ways, with the obsessive celebrity culture America has, which has reached an all-time high, leads me to believe that the current generation of those in the 18-35 age range are the MOST materialistic and self-centered of that demographic we've ever had.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
