This is OUR day now...

[Soph0571]

Maybe a tad optimistic at the moment, but I approve this message

[hlthe2b]

1. I approve message but the presumed apparent target is well off.

If it is targeted at Boomers, the oldest boomer was born in 1946, making the OLDEST of them 17 or18 during the SIGNING of the civil rights act in 1964 (and even younger during the peak years of struggle). Those who perpetuated. defended, and enacted Jim Crowe and separate water fountains and all the overt racism were THE BOOMER's parents--the "greatest generation" (and yes, many WERE but as with all generations they had their absolute cretins too). Just as the current generation of "our time now" has likewise given us THIS:







Just saying...

[Piasladic]

2. Good point -nt

[llmart]

3. +1000

Can we just stop with the generational bashing on DU? As a boomer born in 1949 who donated money she didn't have to civil rights organizations and marched in causes she believed in deep in her soul (and still do to this day), I resent the implications of this tweet.

[brush]

5. Exactly right. And where are grass roots movements and street...

demonstrations from them? For God's sake, the worse president ever is in the WH!

[Scarsdale]

4. I hear ya!

I am hopeful that when citizens see Gym Jordan and Devin Nunes in all their patriotic treachery that their careers will slide into the cesspool along with tRump's. Are the gop too DUMB to see what they are doing to their "party" by defending the chump? Not that I am complaining, mind you. It is just hard to understand why so many of them are blindly forging ahead defending this mafia wannabe.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. Bravo. I'm 70, age wise in the "In my day" group -

but I support 1000% that it is NO LONGER our day and change is not only inevitable but necessary.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Once again ageism denotes a lack of historical context.

The tweet assumes that we who were born in that time and lived through the intervening years had no part in shaping them and approved of the conditions during that period.

I resent that implication as much as I do the presumption that the peace movement and the counterculture had no meaningful effect...Or that the New Deal and the Great Society had none.

You who speak so boldly about claiming your time by shoving "us" aside are ignorant of how you arrived here, and about what yet maintains your ability to speak out at all.

I do not and never have defended or tolerated complacency in the face of oppression.

If you have something energetic to say about changing what is going on, please point that energy at an appropriate target. Your place on the bus exists because many before you fought and sacrificed and yet struggle to maintain it. I would appreciate that in your haste to get to the front of the bus you did not toss the rest of us under it.