The First Part of "The 60's"

"The 60's" is a miniseries that presents how national issues and events profoundly affect two families, one white and one black, in the 1960s America. The Herlihys, the white family, have a son named Brian that goes to Vietnam when he joins the Marines, Michael who gets involved in politics, and their daughter Katie that gets pregnant and leaves home. The Taylors, the African-American family, is a faher who's a minister and civil rights organizer and his son Emmet that joins the Black Panthers serving as a bodyguard for Fed Hampton. The son always thought they had to fight for their right and acts with violence multiple times. His father sees him in a riot and tries to stop him by taking his gun, this leads to his death by a police officer that shoots him.

In this first part, we see discrimination against black people and how they were badly treated all their life. They couldn't fight for their rights and every time they did they were punished. We also see discrimination against women and how men had more rights and better chances at defending themselves. There is also discrimination against the political views and against ideologies of social movements. We see how Katie, still in high school, gets pregnant and has to leave her home, she's faced with this all alone and then joins a hippie commute. Brian joins the Marines after leaving high school and goes to Vietnam to fight in the war. Michael who meets a girl and starts a relationship with her, he fought for his ideals and fought against the war. We see Emmet, who all his life his father told him he had to live peacefully because he wanted him to be safe, but Emmet always knew he wanted to fight for a better life and for all of the African-Americans who were mistreated.

This discriminations will always exist, they existed in the 1960s and they still exist now. Even though it's not the same as before and we all have more rights and a better life, there are still people who suffer from this in their daily lives.