Name: 1968 Was A Very Very Tense Year In America
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T18:58:03.000Z
Duration: 22 min 2 s
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I'm sitting here at the time of the Corona virus pandemic in my office, and I'm thinking about my life.

Basic passive voice

I've been around a while other times when things were stressed like they are now.

And I know some people are going to be seeing this video far in the future when I'm not even sure you'll remember what the Corona virus waas.

Things are pretty shocking, not only in America but around the world.

It was back in 1968 and 69 when the United States was completely fractured.

50% of us felt get out of the Vietnam War.

50% of us felt stand behind our government.

And if the government says the war is necessary, it is.

50% felt the country was going backward and had to change, and 50% felt the country was moving forward and they arrested.

I went to a Thanksgiving dinner where some family members fought with other family members and they didn't talk.

I mean, some people left the Thanksgiving.

So I'm sitting in my office back in 1968 and a filmmaker approaches meaning Can Anderson much older than me.

He's a Christian filmmaker, and he shows me this movie called Confrontation, where he needs some of my footage.

The writing is beautiful, the way he expresses himself, how he puts the film together.

I said, Sure, you can use my footage and I never saw him again.

I know he went on to make some other films, but this film that I'm about to show you has never been on you.

And at this time of crisis, when the country is split, when things that divided when everything looks tense, I thought I'd run the confrontation film that Ken Anderson made solar ago, which has some of my footage.

If the time when you're watching this is such that there is no confrontation, there is no partisan divide in America or anywhere in the world.

This may seem very strange to you to see the country so fractured as it was back then, not a very comfortable world.

If we could find a place to hide, We can't.

Yeah, I can't run away to find out just what kind of world it is.

We've taken our cameras all across the face of it North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, particularly in search of young people.

What they're thinking saying, First of all, you have to remember that black people are people and what drives any human being.

And when you find out the things that drive in human beings such as hunger, thirst, anything else the need to belong, the need to feel a part of or the need to be respected This is what motivates a black man.

They stifle us, they put us in little boxes and we have to get out of those boxes.

I wanted to write lifestyle like the radical lifestyle longhair, hippies, dope.

All that kind of thing's just against the staff and all of these air model distortions of middle class American behavior anyway, not only the young people, but ordinary people of all ages to control their own lives for themselves, not allow a handful of politicians and businessmen to control what we think on what we do, the political system has to be restructured so that people have control over whatever institution is affecting them.

And then some of the honkies establishment the businessmen, They've got so much against each other already that I think if they, uh, let it go, any father could really get nasty.

Have that life is different because everybody doesn't care about the others.

But back home, everybody cares about the other members of the black man is going to be the the leader of the revolution in America today.

Whether that revolution be violent or nonviolent, whether that revolution be political or religious or whatever.

He will be the leader simply because of the fact that he has been the most oppressed.

Plainly, the revolt is against the establishment.

The status quote, you're aware the terminology, Hippies, generation gap, the S.

We, of course, focused our cameras and other kids too.

They may be only a segment of our society, but they hold the fuses and relentless fire burns in their hearts.

We gotta listen to these kids when they talk.

They're driving wedges, putting the extra routes that have grown long and deep in the soil of our society.

Revolutionary, iconoclastic, determined and better state.

Listening to those kids makes appreciate little more that our long oasis in church once a week.

Yeah, I got to get these people back inside a church back into the sanity secular of our society.

Can't they see what the establishment is done?

Don't they understand what the good life means?

The point is, we live in an era demanding change, immediate revolutionary change.

It's the priority topic on the lips of these young people before to take revolutionary accident action, much similar to the same things that were said that that set up the foundation of this country.

There is a gap between leadership and needs of the people.

There's always a cause behind it in the first place.

If everything was right, then that wouldn't be the rioting.

Well, like we feel that, you know, we just don't dig the straight society, a society that were born in.

We are not satisfied with the amount of control they have over their own lives way.

People who control the economic system are using the political system for their own gain.

One of those selfish viewpoint and I'm proud of it.

Because I'm an individual and I have my individual rights.

It's a capital structure which has to basically inherent problems that are wrong with that one system based on exploitation, which is broken down to the exploitation of people of color, which is the racial question.

And two, It's an imperialist contradiction in the society, whereas you exploit people not in your soil going to foreign countries.

So years in my country, the cost of living is getting higher on the percentage off.

The prostitution is getting higher, oppressed the SS anti imperialist, anti capitalist, anti racist as its general program, and we're fighting to make a revolutionary change in this country that turn it upside down to change it and destroy it as it is and replaced with a more human society plays with your mind.

I think one thing I would have to say that relation it destroys your mind.

Anyone who goes goes to this establishment goes up, is a little kid and becomes an adult the way that they want you to be, in other words, the exact hole in the IBM card that they have decided that you should be.

I think he come out with really very distorted, destroyed mind.

Come gather round people wherever changes perhaps become most visible on the college campus, once traditional, where the only time things really got rough was during the big game on Saturday afternoon and where happiness was a tennis date after the last class on Tuesday.

Group Oh, it's no use looking for somebody to blame for an easy way out.

Ah, better idea would be to listen to some of these students, find out what they're thinking and why the generation gap.

Both sides of it, uh, expound virtues, which the other side seems to be living on DDE.

Whether they get together or not is irrelevant.

The changes will happen, I think, the biggest area of hypocrisy.

It's probably the fact that everyone else tends to accuse the other person of being hypocritical.

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