This Movie was presented as a manic-depressive family man who really needed to settle down. Seeing these confessions of exhaustion and compromise, the right wing pounces. Oh, we could have told you all along that those erstwhile rebels were just a bunch of mentals and, besides, they exaggerate the bad side of the war. If those peace creeps had their way, we'd all be speaking Hungarian right now. The approved way of looking back at the contentious decade is to don the tragic face and say, Mistakes were made.
Racism continues, but it's no longer openly encouraged by courts and politicians.
On the one hand, '60s rhetoric was excessive. On the other hand, we won. Hippie student radical Black Panther bra burners got their way. Mich. At campuses nationwide, the SDS led multiplaned actions against the social problems of the 1960s. The organization, which topped 100,000 members, led the coalition of movements against the war, racism, sexism and pollution until 1970, when there were too many different people and opinions to be led by one organization.