What should put FEAR in the hearts of gunners was today's DIVERSITY

[Stinky The Clown]

Suburban kids from South Florida joined with Latina/o kids from South LA, black kids from Chicago, privileged white kids from everywhere and they all agreed to pass the megaphone one to the other.

I have never seen such diversity of actors in a mission of common cause. The young people protesting the Viet Nam war may have come close, but that was a protest storm long in gathering. This one went from 6 murderous minutes in a South Florida high school to a nationwide coalition in a very few short weeks.

Their generation is larger than the Boomers. They WILL be heard.

[democratisphere]

1. Boomers have blown it, big time.

The Diversity Generation gives me some hope.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I disagree the Boomers blew it.

That was then. This is now. Since the Boomers there have been GenX GenY, Millenials.

Boomers ended the Viet Nam war.

[democratisphere]

6. It's what they did after the Viet Nam war that is inexcusable, disgraceful and disgusting.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. What did they do that was inexcusable, disgraceful and disgusting?

And are you lumping ALL Boomers together? Reagan wasn't a Boomer and neither was Bush Sr.

[democratisphere]

29. Decimation of all environments-resources-species, criminal enterprise healthcare and

banking systems, massive individual greed and "I want it all" attitude, corporate corruption and malfeasance, wall street transfer of wealth to the wealthiest, insurmountable national debt and so on. Sorry, boomers got to own it!

[DBoon]

36. WTF

Boomers created the modern environmental movement

The aging remnants of the 1930s generation (Reagan) destroyed it.

Fuck you, that is not what my generation stood for.

[moondust]

47. You're thinking of

the Korean War generation including people like Jack Welch at GE who were the bosses during the Reagan years. They helped Reagan/Republicans and Thatcher/Tories transform the world economy into neoliberalism and rewarding wealth rather than work. The boomers were mostly in their 20s and 30s during the Reagan years so they weren't calling the shots.

[democratisphere]

49. The Korean War generation had plenty of skin in the ruination game

as you mentioned. Boomers can also add on perpetual wars, jumbo morgages without jobs, all culminating in the lovely economic crash of 2008.

[Hekate]

20. Oh my. Civil rights. Women's rights. Gay rights. Ending the war in Viet Nam. Protesting the invasion

...of Iraq. Protesting the erosion of our Constitutional rights and seeking to protect them. Protesting Trump. Supporting women's right to a full range of health care. Working for gun legislation. Attempting to build Utopia on a small scale (communes). Seeking enlightenment. Founding the environmental movement. Saving the whales.

Everywhere I go in the realm of those seeking to protect and expand human rights, I see my generation, now grown old in the fight. If you want to lay blame, look at the 1%. If you want to fight the 1%, read Mineral Man's posts, and others who have not given up.

Really? An entire generation of humanity blew it and is inexcusable, disgraceful, and disgusting?

Someone seems to have some parental rebellion issues, democratisphere.

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. Thank you for being so eloquent. nt

[efhmc]

41. We have much to be proud of.

nt

[democratisphere]

31. #29.

[demigoddess]

24. hey, a lot of us boomers are democrats from way back. we voted against all of those

people you talk about. We also took the flack for supporting JFK instead of Nixon. I voted for jimmy Carter, Clinton, Hillary,Barack Obama and 2 dem Senators in my state.

[democratisphere]

32. #29.

[DBoon]

37. #29 is a rant not a reason

Stating untruths and referencing them multiple times does not make them true.

You have no idea what people of my generation went through.

[Hekate]

42. We worked for peace candidates who lost or were murdered: Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy

That's how we came to know we were Democrats at an early age, and why we are Democrats today.

[Hekate]

48. The young men of our generation were packed off to Vietnam, and came home wounded in body & soul

Many, many died.

One-percenters like George W. Bush were privileged to "serve" in the Texas Air National Guard.

John Kerry came home from fighting in Vietnam and testified to Congress: "How can you ask a mother to let her son be the last one to die for a lie?" He was still very young.

[Demsrule86]

10. And supported racial equality that lead to the first Black President.. womans rights were big

too. The rights enjoyed by young women today came from their Mother's and Grandmothe'rs hard work. Gay marriage? Plenty of good happened as well.

[democratisphere]

33. #29

[klook]

4. ...

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Heh! Some of the diehards'll continue with that until we're all dead.

[Demsrule86]

5. Good things happened too... so sick of such talk.

[FakeNoose]

12. There were a lot of Baby Boomers marching today

Seriously, I kid you not, and it surprised me too. I went to the march in Pittsburgh and I saw at least as many people in their 60's and 70's as teenage students marching. I'm 67, and I was with my siblings who are all over 60. I can tell the different between a 16-year-old and a 60-year-old.

Not to make this into an age-thing but I saw adults of all ages marching. Some were probably teachers or parents of the students, and I'd put them around 40ish-50ish. There were young couples with toddlers in baby carriages. The photos that are being posted on DU now are showing a full range of ages in the marchers. This was an awesome thing we did today!

[Lonestarblue]

21. Im 70 and I marched

along with many others my age and older, including some in wheelchairs. Lots of baby boomers, along with many young people with their families. It didn’t hurt that hometown boy Matthew Mcconaughey spoke! This topic is one that people from all walks of life can get behind.

[Sophia4]

15. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s is finally paying dividends

although our police forces need to catch up.

[democratisphere]

17. At least one third of our voting population needs to catch up on civil rights too.

[Skittles]

27. please stop stereotyping

[Hekate]

43. Someone seems to have some real issues and is looking for scapegoats

[Skittles]

44. I am sick of it

[Hekate]

45. Someone needs an ass-kicking

Just sayin'.

[Skittles]

46. generation-blaming is crap

I hated others doing it to me and I vowed I would never do it........we all have our "crosses to bear" - the bottom line has ALWAYS been WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER

[malaise]

2. Yep

It was amazing - organized in five weeks and three days since that horrific slaughter.

[Leghorn21]

7. A K and a massive R!!

This is our hearts exploding with pride and joy and hope:

Have never even imagined a day like today, I want these kids to adopt me

[Baitball Blogger]

8. There was this one blonde haired girl with blue eyes that I thought was going to lose the crowd

when she said something like, let's never forget why people are listening to us. It's because we come from an affluent community. But in the next breath she had everyone on the same page. And then she came up with the slogan of the day: "America can't be great, if we don't feel safe."

[Stinky The Clown]

11. She was the one I alluded to in the OP

And my initial reaction was you describe. It lasted less that 10 seconds until she was crystal clear what she was about.

The diversity was about every measure by which people get divided. They were all together today.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Absolutely melted when she introduced MLK's granddaughter.

These kids are so aware and understand the issues so much better than we did. Granted, I think our generation was heroic with the anti-war movement, but it was the first time anything like that was ever tried and the status quo managed to turn the mistakes against the movement.

[IluvPitties]

9. I am proud of all the Americans who protested today.

[Stallion]

16. Diversity was my Favorite Part of Today

and a very ominous sign for ReTrumplicans

[Kirk Lover]

18. I'll bet a lot of the folks who participated today also participated in the women's march...

[Hekate]

22. I wore my Women's March t-shirt. I saw a lot of silver haired ladies in pink pussycat hats

[IronLionZion]

26. Lots of overlap, I know several who did both

I like liberal marches, the people are very polite and friendly. When the Tea Party, Anti-choice, anti-gay groups are in town they are such assholes and ruin the day of anyone walking by.

[IronLionZion]

23. Indeed, they spoke about general gun violence, not just mass shootings

which affects all sorts of people everywhere.

I really enjoyed the open mockery of the NRA and their puppet politicians and calls to vote them out. It was awesome.

[demigoddess]

25. me, too.

[Cha]

34. They Will Listen to the KIDS!

[JPK]

35. I'm 64 years old

I was in Miami Beach at the '72 Republican Convention. I was in Flamingo Park with the Yippies, Zippies and the hippies. Probably all white as I recall. There with the VVAW, SDS, you name the groups. We marched all over the place protesting the war. I remember marching in front of the Fountain Blue Hotel with all those well dressed republican's going to their dinners while the Florida State Troopers, I don't recall any black officers, surrounding the hotel in riot gear and were salivating like dogs waiting to be let off their leash to beat us the hell up with their billy clubs.

I thought that was a happening. This is so different. We have truly become a melting pot through desegregation. It has been painful along the way sometimes but it looks to me like the wisdom of those that forced this country to do this, we are reaping the promise. These kids are so amazing. All of them. The torch has been passed. These kids have found their voice, their understanding, their purpose.

[uponit7771]

39. +1

[Heartstrings]

38. Witnessed the diversity in Madison, WI too!

[Initech]

40. Diversity? Why i believe that's a very old wooden ship from the Civil War era.

The gun nuts are like Ron Burgundy in this regard.