There Is Hope
Which means it has nothing to do with politicians or Washington, DC. Despite the best efforts of the politicians and the Village elite, children have figured it out.
Elayne featured a Susie Madrak link that I have been trying to find.
I couldn’t remember where I had seen it, but if you click on the link to Susie and play the video, don’t just listen, look at the expressions on the faces of the kids when they are told why people are objecting to the Cheerios ad that is shown.
If we can just convince them to vote when they are old enough, a lot of the country’s problems will be solved.
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i’ve heard about this one, but hadn’t seen it yet. thanks!
At this point I don’t remember why I was trying to find it again, but as soon as I clicked through from Elayne’s I knew this was the video.
These are middle class kids who attend good schools. You’d likely get a different result from kids from a school in Crackertown Mississippi, or for that matter for kids from a school in inner city Detroit (from the girls, who find it offensive that black boys often chase white girls rather than them, though it’s more about “what, I’m not good enough for you?!” than about hating the white race the way the crackers in rural Mississippi would hate the black race). Now that the oligarchs are finishing their job of destroying the middle class, that looks more like the future of America than these middle class kids who attend good schools :(.
With the caveat that this is an area with a large military presence, this is pretty much the attitude of kids around here who go to public school. They hang out in mixed groups and there are mixed couples, so the attitude is spreading even on the Redneck Riviera.
If you head to the north county it probably isn’t as prevalent, but there is always football to make things better.
I think that teenage fashion and music are helping things along, because country and Christian music don’t have the appeal to kids that their parents would prefer. If you see someone in a ‘hoodie’, he probably isn’t Black, might be an old white guy feeding cats if it’s chilly.