Donna Brazile: How the '60s shaped my life

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/opinion/brazile-60s-1968-civil-rights/
Brazile: How the '60s shaped my life
By Donna Brazile
Thu July 31, 2014

Editor's note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of "Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in America." She was manager for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. Experience "The Sixties" on CNN Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

(CNN) -- I'm looking forward to Thursday night's installment of CNN's "The Sixties" with some trepidation. True, it's another excellent installment in the series. Capturing the highlights and essence of a decade, especially one as turbulent and historically significant as the '60s, is not easy.

Given the controversial nature of many of the events -- at the time and even today -- and given how much influence some of those movements and events still exert, the task of putting together even a multipart series is daunting.

Thursday's episode will cover the 1968 assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, and of Bobby Kennedy, on June 5. Other episodes will cover the beginnings of the gay rights movement -- the Stonewall riots -- and the emergence of the women's rights movement....

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1. They'll never get a true picture of the 60s

because the footage of us was shot and interpreted by paunchy white guys from the suburbs. Part of it was our fault, we didn't trust them (with good reason) and usually put them on rather than trying to talk to them.

A couple of the old chat shows got close. I remember one (Susskind, I think), that interviewed some hippie-ish young women then had the interviews discussed first by the paunchy old white guys and then by Steinem and a couple of other feminist luminaries. The old white guys said the young women would all end up as streetwalkers. The feminists hooted at them and said they'd all end up married and in the suburbs. The old white guys were completely wrong, of course.

Unfortunately, they will rely on the seasoned reporting that missed the point so terribly.

Just remember, we filthy disgusting hippies were right. Our elders retaliated by electing Nixon.