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9. There were horrible tragedies going on throughout the calendar year
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 02:00 PM
Mar 2012

1968. But the fact is the resonance from what the young people of the time were undertaking, and those who were enlightened and older, still makes waves in our current day culture.

In my day, few people talked to their parents about sex. Young women were required to wear hats and gloves if going out and looking for a job.

I remember sitting at a lunch table in a hospital cafeteria in Chicago in 1969, and women getting up and leaving the vicinity - because I was white and the two women with me at the table were black. All three of us were in nursing uniforms. That wouldn't happen in any hospital cafeteria in Chicago now.

I remember a not so distant talk with a young man at a Kinko's. And he made some snarky remark about how what happened in the sixties didn't matter.

i mean, there is this guy with hair down to his ass, tatts covering his arms, piercings in his face, working a nine to five job and being considered for the position of store manager. And he thinks things hadn't changed from what happened back in the fifties or sixties?

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