Please, it is my birthday today, so read my favorite and most self-deprecating blog. Mea Culpa should be its real title. Let me know what you think.
(Please listen to Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Now that the Buffaloes Gone”)
1964. A time of increased social consciousness: Civil Rights marches. Women’s Rights marches. Free Speech marches. Protests in the grape fields. The Indian Movement. The Free Love Movement. The Whole Earth Movement. Anti-war marches. Lots of social commentary and inspiring folk songs written during this period by musicians such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Buffy St. Marie, Sixto Rodriguez, Richie Havens, Leonard Cohen, Country Joe McDonald, Peter, Paul and Mary, not to mention hundreds of others. (Many others came before these, like Paul Robeson and Woody Guthrie.)
Can you remember the times
That you have held your head high
And told all your friends of your Indian claim
Proud good lady and proud good man
Your great great grandfather from Indian blood came
And you feel in your heart for these ones
The Baby Boomers (I…
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