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Every generation has its own musical style, finding myself with decent WiFi this past weekend, I was able to enjoy some of the best music ever recorded; the most beautiful songs seem to have been written in the 60's - I listened awestruck to Simon & Garfunkel singing "Sounds of Silence", Mrs. Robinson" etc in front of hundreds of thousands of concert-goers, it sent quivers down my spine. I also listened to The Carpenters and a man singing a beautiful ballad with the lyrics:
Are you going to San Francisco?
If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there ~~~~~~~~ curious about this period in history I Googled all I could about it and found that it was called the "Summer of Love", people were turning their backs on the establishment, on the Vietnam war (and all wars), I saw images of throngs of White people wearing cassocks' and sandals singing peace songs and holding peace rallies, it must have been one heck of a magical time for them - those were the youth that would one day rule their country in peace and harmony, one would have thought, if Only that was true.
I puzzled about this until way after midnight I tried to figure it out, the world had gotten worse, not better - on my pc screen was a news story I had read earlier, and a picture of a group of angry and disillusioned Black youth stomping on a police car; years and years of oppression had brought them to boiling point and left them with only one option: to fight back, in Baltimore they'd take their last stand against a system that was never designed to accommodate them to begin with.
The generation of 60's "peace-lovers", I concluded, were nothing more than a bunch of slackers avoiding the horrors of war that their Uncle Sam was hell-bent on sending them to - on YouTube someone commented: "all those 'intellectuals' grew up, sold out, and are now the establishment that they protested back then!"
On another note, it pains me when some of my White brethren view my opinions as attacks on them; I've received some rather nasty and crude comments on my blog posts over the years which I don't take personally because I'm quite aware that we live in a world filled with nutcases; I draw comfort from the reasonable responses that I do get from time to time. Truth be told; I could Never be racist even if I wanted to: my extended family is made up of Coloureds, Blacks and Whites, remarkable young men and women - it would cause great unease to me to see White kids (or any race) living in fear and uncertainty which is precisely why we have to learn to talk openly about land and economic reform to bring certainty, normality and one day, hopefully bring closure to the subject.
God Bless.
