The 60's

I'm getting tired of hearing about how divided the county is but I understand why it is on the news. It is there because all of the talking heads are too young to know any different. These people were not around in the 60's especially 1968. The 1960's saw the most serious and widespread series of race riots in the history of the United States. They started in the Watts riots in LA in 1965 and accelerated when King was killed three years later. At the same time the Vietnam-era antiwar movement may count as the largest sustained protest movement in the history of the country. The protests went on for 9 years from 1964 until 1973. The year 1968 remains one of the most tumultuous single years in history. Two assassinations (Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy) a bloody war, racial unrest and countercultural protest. Yet this doesn't hold a candle to the divisions cause by the Civil War. We need a documentary on the 60's on national TV to put these times in their proper perspective. It wouldn't be so easy to hype what is going on today if more people knew about the 60's.