All we are saying is give peace a chance!
I think I'm obsessed with the movie Across the Universe. I've always been a fan of the Beatles, since I was in nappies really (U2 as well)! I fell asleep listening to Beatles music as a baby and I have fond memories associated with their music. John Lennon was also my childhood hero. This movie...I was afraid when I saw the trailer. It looked good
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The 60s is my favorite decade in American history. Seeing people of all backgrounds and color uniting for the greater good is moving. I love the leaders of that time too. Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King were incredible people. But on a sad note, the 60s make me sad because today people seem to apathetic to everything whereas in the 60s people were willing to dying for their beliefs.
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Yes, exactly! It was a decade of change and progress, people uniting for peace and the greater good. Today, role models are people like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, it makes me sad. I do not want to sound racist when I say this and I will state right now that I am not talking about all black people, but it makes me sad when I hear a black teen say that they do not care about voting and that won't bother to even register. It makes me think of what the Civil Rights was all about, how voting was a part of it and that these few people are throwing it in the face of their parents and their grandparents, who fought for their right to vote. If you don't care about politics, that's one thing. But I've heard some people say that they didn't understand why their parents fought for the right to vote. It saddens me :(
It's also sad how the powers that be didn't seem to learn from the 60s, we're in another Vietnam.
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Well right now more young black people...more young people in general are voting and are exited about this election. I never paid attention to politics until about a year ago(probably because I can actually vote now). But yeah.. anywho..not all but certainly a lot of black people have a strong distrust over the government. They don't believe that the government cares about them in the slightest. So they don't vote because they don't think it will affect them. Certain events like Hurricane Katrina don't exactly help that relationship, even though I think it was more class than race, but it certainly don't help to black and poor. Not voting is still wrong. I've always felt that if you don't vote, you don't have a right to complain.
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So true, the government really screwed many people of New Orleans :(
Hear hear
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