Commentary: Charles Manson was a white supremacist. Why can't pop culture seem to admit it?
The creepy, long-haired menace of Charles Manson and his murderous hippie cult is back, thanks in large part to the blockbuster feature "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" and the return of Netflix's heralded crime drama, "Mindhunter."
Manson, who ordered his "family" of followers to massacre seven people over two nights in August 1969, is a formidable but largely unexplored presence in both productions.
In Quentin Tarantino's film, his gruesome crimes represent the end of Flower Power idealism. In the streaming series, his story coincides with the beginning of America's obsession with serial and
