i wanted to lay this out because that we had a caller on the previous our west
senator sanders
who said words to the effect of you know i was born back in the sixties writers
live in the sixties and i remember the seven days you know they were all these
riots
people were saying and now for a ready we're not going to take a bit anymore
and uh... why are people writing now
and she
i would like to share my
and bernie had his own and it was
i think he was spot on
but here's or and to hear it let me let me add by my take on this as well on
that question
non-partisan issue but
most of the people who were riding in the seventies and i lived through this
affect uh... the neighborhood detroit at that
that burned it down about ten square blocks that burned down his where i
lived in
when i was who one and two years old
when i was a little kid
it's uh... it was at that time it was very it was a very poor neighborhood a
burned out i was reporting rhode island there my parents and just got married
an early dinner for yourself and uh... couple of years
and uh... dad was you know traveling around the state looking for work
it was a tough time
this was fifty-three must at fifty to fifty three
and it was basically jewish ghetto it was uh... ca community that was mostly
uh... immigrants mostly german immigrants holocaust survivors in one
hour
and in fact
the first language that i spoke with any reasonable fluency was not english it
was yet ish
because both my parents working and the couple across the hall
watched me during the day and they spoke it should
and so now i see it it's funny i go to germany order israel
and i speak a little bit of german and i speak a little bit hebrew and when i
speak it
uh... my accent
konica you know the the ability to make those sounds is like absolutely actual
timmy because i learned about two years old
amicus and people just assume that i'm much more fluent but i actually a m
because my pronunciation is
pretty amazing
are pretty good strip companies
any aida and i remember when you trade burned
and they are women a bribery when that neighborhood went down in flames
it was entirely african-american
as was what's
as was harlem i mean you had cities across america there were burning and
they were afro-american communities
c end and this is
inouye it begs the question again why is cool i was greece and fire like sheer
now they're there wasn't so much of a racial divide why was greece unfair
needed james chine davies who is uh... it was born in nineteen eighteen and as
far as i can tell us a lot of user professor the university of oregon from
for quite some time
came up with the theory of revolutions
which has been incorporate it into an referred to as the jcrew
by a variety of people
and basically what he said was that revolution doesn't come about
when people
when life is terrible for people
instead
revolution comes about when people
not just expect
but believe deep down inside boldly
that life is going to get better or is getting better
and doesn't happen
that's when you have a revolution
so you know what supplies sdn states i mean after instead
pretty miserable lives for a large chunks of american history in there were
some efforts a revolution but
uh... nothing is
well i shouldn't say nothing as larger sustained as the seventies but
but that was that was certainly a flash point y
because in nineteen fifty four brown versus board of education the supreme
court said
no more segregated schools no more legal apartheid the united states
and then in nineteen sixty six sixty seven sixty eight there were a series of
civil rights laws the civil rights act the voting rights act
that said
that said uh... no you can't keep
you can say read people in commerce
this was a actually part of the nineteen sixties
uh... dixon kennedy debate replayed that clip before
and uh... in fact might be worth revisiting
to see you get a sense of what this what the time was like sears down and saying
here
where
richard nixon you know the question was what are we going to do
about the fact that
the south in particular
is segregated
you know what's what's the deal
with us irrigated south and
and nixon's uh... you know me and the the the questioner in the debate said
what would you do about this in
nixon basically said
i would ask
the businessmen to stop being bad
and kennedy
i wouldn't use the law and kick their butt
and that was the big do you know that historically has been a diversion
conservatives and between republicans and democrats conservatives and liberals
getaclue
it's from it's from the nixon kennedy debate tonight
but let's plan see if that's the club
i am proposing today a new national help that's that's not it
as it sits at the state election candidate but and nineteen sixty there
in any case and i told a story about a student here at the correct
what happened as a consequence of this animus has been part of presidential
debate nineteen sixty the supreme court decisions in nineteen fifty four
you had the civil rights acts past throughout the sixties yet the great
society programs
that live to the court you know i did
aka at quarter to a half of all people america in poverty out of poverty
and so there was this level of expectation
in the afternoon community that
within within a generation you know within a decade with it within a very
short period time we're gonna start scene that's a middle-class life that
white america had had
for the previous twenty thirty years
and it didn't happen
because redlining was still happening discrimination was still happy racism
was alive and well
the republicans are making a comeback in britain nixon did come up with the
southern strategy i mean it just the whole thing
and so you had a mini revolution
so what you are using look at the same thing indeed go back to the french
revolution
the french revolution was about starvation yet times were tough but
they've been far tough adult offered other times
it was about the the expectation they had seen our revolution is seen american
middle class they said
why can't we have that
in fact they fully expect that louis louisiana the sixty days actually
promised it to them
and they didn't get it
the same thing with the greeks the greeks
you know they were expecting a life was getting can
you know every generation stand a better than the previous generation then
when the banks just come along and crash their content and add insult to injury
the banks are saved by the way we're not paying for the damage we did
average working people at the paper the damage we did
and so not only did life get better got worse but it wasn't that what life got
worse it was that the expectation was violation
now this is a very back of the envelope super simplistic
perspective
but the important point is
that revolution happens sometimes vile we sometimes non-violently
and i would say that
the revolution
of nineteen thirty two
is an example of non-violent action
rodeo dealership franklin roosevelt's new deal the revolution happens when
when it's when it's basically provoked her happen audio argued the actual
revolution happening
in nineteen thirty thirty one
when the bonus army
when the occupation movement of that generation
when the bonus army camped out
from the white house all the way down to the potomac river and said we're not
gonna leave and finally and in nineteen thirty-one president herbert hoover he
was thirty two president herbert hoover
uh... general eisenhower in general ah...
what's his name from the pacific theater
westmoreland
mccartney's current embarcadero macarthur
right in there with uh... tanks and horses a couple of people have died in
the burned about i mean a big
do away with an occupying
that was the revolution
the response that revolution
was the new deal
so the question in my mind is at what point our people's expectations
particularly given the election of a president who
campaign and help in change
and who has been promising
that things are going to get better
when he is confronted by an absolutely
immovable republican party that says no we are going to block anything it makes
things better
every single significant piece of legislation
in the first two years the about presidency that successfully gus
represents
really help the economy
were blocked by republicans in the senate and then for the last two years
of the obama presidency
the republicans controlled the house
and not one that single jobs bill was passed
instead we saw a legislation but you know about gay marriage in curriculum
palm acya
and now the same thing the first bill was introduced mass representatives
yesterday by the shopbop
was to repeal obama
how long is it gonna be before people's expectations client
you're listening to the trial markman program visit some hardman dot com for
audio and video archive
in my opinion that the republicans continue this instruction
it's gonna be within the next view or to or three