A Time to Share
\n\u00a9 Copyright, Frank W. Andres, 1983. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n
They marched down Telegraph Avenue that day. They were saying that
\nsomeone was taking their park, of all the damn things. I am convinced that it
\nwas not so much that someone was trying to take their park. Instead, it was
\nthe fact that someone was trying to take their lives. All I know is that it
\nbegan with a march, then came the usual demonstration and yelling. It was
\ndifferent this time though, as the national guard was now a continual
\npresence. There were the speeches, and the curses…a scuffle, a burst of
\nshots, then he was dead. I remember it as if it were a moment ago. A patch
\nof agony scratched into my brain.
\nHow is one to account for a decade as deviant as the 1960s? Before this
\ntime were not the children of this great land content in their prosperity, proud
\nof their heritage? There was the war, of course. Boys were being corralled
\nand slaughtered, a practice not new in history, to be sure. But times were
\ndifferent now. The real income of individuals would have doubled over the
\n1950 figures by 1970. People were now in mass richer than any peoples in\u00a0the past. They were able to give their children gifts of knowledge and
\neducations befitting kings of old. One might say that the people now were
\nbeginning to have too much. More disturbing, they were beginning to know
\ntoo mcuh. They could not be fed the baloney that the United States must
\nprotect the billions from Communism. They knew that the job now for all
\nnations was to protect the billions from hunger, to get the economies moving.
\nTo give other persons a life as they themselves now possessed. Materially,
\nmany no longer felt the need for more. Now it was time to share. But their
\nparents could in no way understand this generosity and new wisdom of their
\nchildren and interpreted it as ungratefulness, obstreperousness, ultimately as
\ndefiance.
\nAnd sothere was death, for by no means the first time in the story of
\nman, on the school ground as well as on the battleground. Now as I look
\nback ten years later, after a decade of supposed calm, although the New York
\nTimes logs its routine thousands of demonstrations a year, I can see that the
\n1960s were not an aberration, but a harbinger of changes to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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