Lost on the Road to Jena--with some Ques.

[Little32]

By youth I mean college-aged, most of whom are technically adults but still young people (such as the members of SNCC and the voter registration workers who traveled South to get folks to register). Those are actually the people that I mostly saw protesting here as well (I work with college students), and those are the ones who have formed a group to continue the discussions that have begun from this incident.

Sometimes adults can not offer the kind of guidance that will affect future change, because what has worked in the past may not work now. Don't underestimate the ingenuity and the commitment of the youth once motivated (and that motivation could stem from a variety of sources.)

I think that we agree on the key issues.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Little32

By youth I mean college-aged

Then we agree. Those are adults to me. Youth are often categorized as 15-20ish year olders so that was why I didn't know what you meant.

I agree that older adults can't always mobilize and that's why the college aged crowd as been instrumental in civil rights. But when speaking of the "new generation," this would be people younger than college aged. So I'm thinking of ways that college aged adults and older adults can get the younger blacks conscious and mobilized.