Spiro Agnew who served as Vice-President under Richard Nixon said:
"Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike----I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam."
I'M WHITE, SEEING RED, AND FEELING BLUE
The attention they would seek
When their time was at its peak
Permeated our tv screens
With outrageous, sometimes violent scenes
You must wonder who they are today
Now that yuppies and hippies have gone away
It is surely not a mystery
They had left their mark on history
Black panthers drove a racial wedge
Amid the goodness of Dr. Kings solemn pledge
Someday we would walk together
And color would not matter
Lives of icons we embraced
By assassin's bullets would be erased
JFK, Bobby, and Martin how
Would you see our country now?
That kind of leadership is rare at best
We continue to settle for less and less
With our treasury so overdrawn
Where has all the prosperity gone?
In the forties we were proud to fight
And understood a veteran's plight
Once patriots well supported
Today their troubles are under-reported
The attention that they garner
The far left loons that drag us under
Aren't they the hippies from yesteryear
Who demeaned the country that most held dear?
Black Panthers still divide us
Politicians override us
Half the population strives
While the other half just stays alive
Two cars in every garage, the hope
Now two welfare modes in life to cope
In darkness we must hide away
It's the only place we have to pray
But pray, I will and must
I still believe In God We Trust
Though knocked down I won't surrender to
The destruction of red, white, and blue
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