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Everyone wants to think that they’re experiencing something new. I think that our education system has failed to teach us history, largely bc I when I talk to old hippies (who are now retired corporate executives), I often learn that what’s old is new again...
I am a stickler for providing sources, but I just don’t have time to do all that research today on a subject that’s buried behind the paywalls of top newspapers, so you can accept the truth of what I say, or not. It’s up to you...
The year was 1968. The place was the Democratic National Convention in Chicago....
I actually found a source for part of this. “A Longhair was a Longhair”: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/465036.html
If you’ve ever had a long, engaged, conversation with an old, White, anti-racist hippie, you heard their recollections of how the closest they came to experiencing anything like what Black people experience from the cops was when police culture viewed hippies and Black people...
as one and the same, a view that was pushed by....wait for it...the then President of the United States, but I digress. This thread isn’t about hippies v the police. I was just excited by the reference I found. This is about the time when reporters in the U.S. were brutalized by
the police. It’s a story about a particular reporter’s experience, but it wasn’t the first or only time that the press was targeted by an elected official or a president. By the way, LBJ was president, and Chicago had a Democratic mayor, the infamous Richard Daley.
