Old White Liberals Stuck in the 60s
Friday, May 25, 2012 by David L. Goetsch
The 1960s were nothing if not eventful. There were assassinations, murders, the Viet Nam War, protest marches, sit-ins, freedom rides, campus takeovers, church bombings, boycotts, riots, teargas, campus shootings, cross burnings, draft card burnings, bra burnings, and cities burning. There was a cause for every young idealist who was a solution looking for a problem. The 60s were heady days for young people just coming of age and cutting their political teeth. Those young and often ill-informed idealists of the 60s have since become grouchy old white liberals, reenergized by the election of Americas first black presidentsomething that surprised them even more than it did Barack Obamas most ardent opponents.
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One of the reasons these crusty old white liberals are so nostalgic for the 60s is that they yearn for the days when they still had the moral high groundwhen they could self-righteously blame every social problem on racism and not be too far wrong. Unfortunately for them and America, what todays white liberals fail to acknowledge is that this is 2012 not 1968. Black Americans can vote, eat in any restaurant, drink out of any water foundation, hold any job, attend any school, win elections in the deepest of the deep-South states, ride any bus or even own the bus company, and become President of the United States. One would think that white liberals who marched alongside Dr. King in the 60s would rejoice in the progress America has made, but this is not the case. One can only wonder from their rhetoric if they would not really be happier if racial segregation was still the order of the day.
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Perhaps no individual personifies the old white liberal stuck in the 60s more than Chris Matthews. In a recent debate with Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican Party and a man who happens to be black, Matthews referred to the GOP as the grand wizard crowd (that is grand wizard as in head of the Ku Klux Klan). He also likes to cast judgment on blacks who, in his eyes, are not black enough. Of course, by not being black enough Matthews and his fellow 60s alumni mean that Steele and other conservative blacks refuse to accept the stereotypical and subservient roles imposed on them by the left. The irony of a white liberal like Matthews, a man who has never been black one day in his life, lecturing a black man like Steele for not being black enough is simply too much to grasp. Somebody needs to tell Chris Matthews and other old white liberals like him that the good old bad days of the 60s are over. On second thought, never mind. I think I just did that.
Old White Liberals Stuck in the 60s Patriot Update
Friday, May 25, 2012 by David L. Goetsch
The 1960s were nothing if not eventful. There were assassinations, murders, the Viet Nam War, protest marches, sit-ins, freedom rides, campus takeovers, church bombings, boycotts, riots, teargas, campus shootings, cross burnings, draft card burnings, bra burnings, and cities burning. There was a cause for every young idealist who was a solution looking for a problem. The 60s were heady days for young people just coming of age and cutting their political teeth. Those young and often ill-informed idealists of the 60s have since become grouchy old white liberals, reenergized by the election of Americas first black presidentsomething that surprised them even more than it did Barack Obamas most ardent opponents.
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One of the reasons these crusty old white liberals are so nostalgic for the 60s is that they yearn for the days when they still had the moral high groundwhen they could self-righteously blame every social problem on racism and not be too far wrong. Unfortunately for them and America, what todays white liberals fail to acknowledge is that this is 2012 not 1968. Black Americans can vote, eat in any restaurant, drink out of any water foundation, hold any job, attend any school, win elections in the deepest of the deep-South states, ride any bus or even own the bus company, and become President of the United States. One would think that white liberals who marched alongside Dr. King in the 60s would rejoice in the progress America has made, but this is not the case. One can only wonder from their rhetoric if they would not really be happier if racial segregation was still the order of the day.
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Perhaps no individual personifies the old white liberal stuck in the 60s more than Chris Matthews. In a recent debate with Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican Party and a man who happens to be black, Matthews referred to the GOP as the grand wizard crowd (that is grand wizard as in head of the Ku Klux Klan). He also likes to cast judgment on blacks who, in his eyes, are not black enough. Of course, by not being black enough Matthews and his fellow 60s alumni mean that Steele and other conservative blacks refuse to accept the stereotypical and subservient roles imposed on them by the left. The irony of a white liberal like Matthews, a man who has never been black one day in his life, lecturing a black man like Steele for not being black enough is simply too much to grasp. Somebody needs to tell Chris Matthews and other old white liberals like him that the good old bad days of the 60s are over. On second thought, never mind. I think I just did that.
Old White Liberals Stuck in the 60s Patriot Update
