Frenesi

[Terrance]

> And I wish to Briefly respond to Bandwraith's comment that "Hippie-dom
> would have been equally as  marginalized except for several important
> events- the acceleration of the civil rights movement, and, Martin Luther
> King's courageous anti-war stand."
> 
> As one who lived through those days I can tell you that most of the
> hippies had no clue who Martin Luther King was.  All they knew was that
> government wanted to draft them and put them in a country where people
> wanted to kill them.  It was self defense that built the antiwar movement
> and it was the end of widespread hostilities and the scaling down of the
> draft that ended the movement.
> 

Yeah, those who took part in the mass struggles of the 1960s and early
1970s will know that the birth of the struggle coincided not with the
initial campaign for civil rights but with the demand for black
liberation; that the leading influence was not Martin Luther King, Jr.,
but Malcolm X.