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1970's
Poor Black people crying
because of the pain,
crying
and fighting for freedom.
Why to stop violence do you have to be violent?
L. B.
1971
Where is the future?
Vietnam.
Brothers dying.
Brothers killing each other.
Where is the future?
War is not the answer.
J. H.
1970's, 1980's
I notice
many things were founded in Rochester, Kodak, Xerox, but people
did not take the risks going with new things with them. Our city
was very successful and what happened to Kodak and Xerox? Why
didn't people believe new ideas?
If you
listen to the music from the 1970's and 1980's, you can tell how
much things have changed.
A. L.
1970's
Poverty,
always
poverty.
In the
1970's poverty
looks the
same as it does today.
It's just
different people.
J. M.
How many
people died in the Vietnam War? Why do people think war is the
answer? We will never stop the world from fighting, that's why
we can't find any way to keep our minds on how things can be all
right.
I'm learning
about when things happened and how things were different back
then. We need to know about the world to change the world.
P. P.
What would
things be like if John Lennon was alive now and the Beatles were
still together? The world was different in the 1980's. For one,
there were no VCR's.
Music shows
how people are doing, like in the 1980's and today. Music shows
how the times have changed. So much is different today than it
was in the 1980's. What is the same is no jobs.
P. P.
1980's
I think how
in the 1980's how different things would have been if people
really paid attention to the art, the music. People put their
thoughts into the music and rapped what was there.
Why didn't
people listen? If people listened things might have changed for
children growing up in the ghetto.
P. P.
The Times
Kent State
shootings,
Super horse,
Secretariat,
Watergate
broke wide open,
A president
resigns,
Travolta
fever,
Mr.
Hollywood, Warren Beatty,
When the
music died, John Lennon,
Super shark,
Jaws,
Golden
oldies, Hepburn and Fonda,
Frazier vs.
Ali,
Bruce
Springsteen,
Nintendo,
AIDS,
Here they
come Prince Charles and Diana,
computers
connected.
Shirley
Chisholm ran for President. Why wasn't hip-hop in the
mainstream? Was Kurtis Blow ever on the cover of Time? Or
Grandmaster Flash or Run DMC?
Why did it
take from 1985 until 1989 for YO! MTV RAPS to be on MTV?
"'"What's
going on?"
What is
American culture? Is it war, drugs, oil, music, McDonald's,
gangs, poverty?
M. S.
1980's
John Lennon
shot down.
President
Ronald Reagan shot,
and J. R. in
the TV show Dallas was shot.
Eighty-three
million people watched Dallas to see who shot J.R.
B. W.
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