MINDVIBES: Thoughts from a curious mind

THE JOURNEY TO NOSTALGIA: RE-DISCOVERING 1950s. Many whites in their communities seem to have this desire to hold onto what they contend to be the "good old days." Yet even in their fantasies of the 1950s lurks the shadows of an unearend glory, by which no one can escape aand that is "reality."

WHITE PATRIARCHY THE TOXICITY & THE FALLIBILITIES: The irony of white patriarchy and male dominate control. The inability for us to move forward and achieve some modicum of humanity, lies with the inability for men to to let go of their male toxicity and become more falible to being more humane'.

No one has the right to dictate how someone else should react to someone whon has caused them great pain and suffering. This is inhumane itself to disrespect other's humainty and their right be hostile or angry at their perpatrators. That is just being human, yes we may be sadden by the Queen's death, but for those of us of color we also cannot forget who and what she represented, to do so is just...

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock, CLOSING REMARKS. In this episode I express why I felt the need to speak on it, especially with regards to what we are experiencing today. I feel that our society needs to take another look at what these wonderful youths were attempting, ergo they had many flaws, still their ideas are again worth revisiting.

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock: SIGNIFICANT OUTCOMES. With this episode my attempt is to give what I feel were tangible outcomes from the youthful movement. Since there is in every revolution there are goals that the revolutionaries are seeking, here there were things that many of the youths particularly the white youths out of the universities were seeking, and because of that they rebelled again...

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock: THE BLACK HIPPIES: A search for meaning. Here I am asking a question of why some Blacks joined with the white youths of that day, particularly when they had the Civil Rights Movement as well as the more militant movements that expressed issues which plagued Black Communities. I also try to articulate why I think other Blacks joined in not necessarily with the white...

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock: CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS: The support arm of the countercultural movement. All unrested, and social movements are usually propelled and/or accompanied by some form of creative expression, whether through poetry, songs, or paintings. It is the artistic renderings that sometimes renders to the movement its stated idea. In this episode we see how integral the arts became w...

Mindindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock, DEFINITIONS. This episode explores the inability, of the 60s white youths in general, and the flower children specifically with their use of language. It was, I feel, their lack of understanding of various definitions and their use of euphemisms not only to those in power, people of color, and within their own white community, but it was their own inability to co...

Mindvibes: An Olde to Woodstock, THE NAIVETE': Of the countercultural movement. Here I am examining the fault lines within the youth movement known as the hippie movement, which I believe was somewhat an anchor around their necks with regards to both race and class. Including how I feel their understanding and knowledge at the time was woefully inadequate for them to effectively deal with these di...

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock, INTRODUCTION the first in an 8-part series which I will deal with the Woodstock event itself, but also the possibilities that this event held. Here I will talk on the difficulties of the producers in putting on this event, the ideas that were being expressed, and the feat that the youth were able to pull off because of the size of the crowd and different races of pe...

Mindvibes: An Ode to Woodstock, PREFACE, this 1 st episode of an 8-part series is an introduction to the episodes that I will be exploring. This is my opinion on what was boteh an exciting yet tumultuous times in the 60s. This episode merely highlights the other episode but also gives a glimpse into my thoughts of that period and presents what believe to be the good and the bad within the counterc...