Some kid on the street corner gave me a tab of acid...

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Here's the perception: you think the Grateful Dead was the hippies -
the Grateful Dead wasn't the hippies. All the people that got busted
in the Fourties were the hippies. The pachucos were hippies. All the
guys that used to smoke grass in the Fourties and Fifties all went to
prison and suffered.

And then the upper middle class people come out and found that what
they were doing was cool. So they started doing what was cool and
started using our language and rapping our rap and talking our talk
and walking our walk and growing our hair and growing our beards, and
then come up back from the beatnik land like they were hippies, like
they had come up on something new.

Then they sacrificed all the beatniks and that created the hippies,
then they sacrificed all the hippies and that come up with the
yippies. And every time it gets right up to where the Jew is supposed
to sacrifice himself for what he's preaching, and the people that are
in the peace movement are supposed to make moves so they can have
peace, they all turn back to war and get uniforms and get crew cuts
and go to Wall Street and say "Well, we done growed up now, we're not
hippies no more, we're dippies or slippies" or what do they call them,
yippies? "We're yippies now."

All the yippies were hippies that didn't want to stay with what they
was saying. They was saying they wanted this change and they wanted
to stop the war and all the Joan Baezes and all the motherfuckin'
Patty Hearsts and all them fuckin' ass old bitches in the movies, like
that Jane Fonda and all them fuckin' dizzy-ass fuckin' witches - they
wanted to change the world, but when the children that were living up
underneath that dogma turned to change the world, then they fucked up
and said "Well, it was all Charlie's fault, Charlie did that, Charlie
got all those children in trouble, he brainwashed all those children
to do that." But Joan Baez and Nancy Sinatra and all them ass witches
and these boots are made for walking all over your ass, you dig?

So then they come back with all that motherfuckin' horseshit and say
that I was the brainwash capital of the world, when they were doing
that long before I came on the set. I had been in Mexico City, man.
I had been living down in Mexico City, and when I got busted I hadn't
even been on the streets of the United States of America for over ten
years, y'know. Well, almost ten years, a ten-year sentence - about
seven or eight years.

So then when I came back they said I introduced everybody to acid. I
didn't even know what the fuck acid was until '67 or '68. Some kid on
the street corner gave me a tab of acid, man. I didn't know what the
fuck that shit was, y'know.

I'm not a generation of the Sixties. I'm a generation of the Fourties
and Fifties, and they try to make me into a generation of the
Sixties. I appreciate those kids, man. I thought they did right, I
thought they did good, I really did. They sacrificed themselves and
gave themselves to stop a war that they didn't want to be responsible
for, y'know. They did what they felt what they had to do. And I
didn't say they was wrong, y'know. I didn't judge them, I just
walked along with them, man. I was their friend, and I was their
brother, and I'm still their friend and their brother.

-- Charles Manson