Youth protest may be key to racial transformation in the United States

[Guno צְבִי]

Years later, as a journalist, I reported on the last years of the apartheid state, and observed close at hand how the white minority desperately tried to hold on to power. But eventually, Mandela was released from prison and negotiated an end to apartheid. A democratic government is now firmly in place in South Africa.

In the U.S., it is stunning that we are still dealing with racial issues that should have been resolved a long time ago. On the education level, despite the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, schools remain lopsidedly racially and ethnically segregated. The black-white achievement gap remains unacceptably large.


The demographic changes in the U.S. mean that whites over time will comprise a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. It is projected that the nation will become “minority white” by 2045. California, the nation’s most diverse state, passed that milestone two decades ago.

These trends alone are forcing the nation — and especially young people — to adapt and increasingly to embrace the changed racial and ethnic landscape.

Now, modern technology is making it impossible to ignore some of the most obvious manifestations of racial bias and raw racism in the U.S. — most blatantly in the confrontations that have taken the lives of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd in recent weeks.

One of the most positive developments in the U.S. is that young people are emerging as a prominent force in the most powerful protest movement since the 1960s. The recent student-led march that mobilized 15,000 people in Oakland to protest the killing of George Floyd is only one of many examples from around the nation.


https://edsource.org/2020/youth-prot...-states/633878

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Years later, as a journalist, I reported on the last years of the apartheid state, and observed close at hand how the white minority desperately tried to hold on to power. But eventually, Mandela was released from prison and negotiated an end to apartheid. A democratic government is now firmly in place in South Africa.

In the U.S., it is stunning that we are still dealing with racial issues that should have been resolved a long time ago. On the education level, despite the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, schools remain lopsidedly racially and ethnically segregated. The black-white achievement gap remains unacceptably large.


The demographic changes in the U.S. mean that whites over time will comprise a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. It is projected that the nation will become “minority white” by 2045. California, the nation’s most diverse state, passed that milestone two decades ago.

These trends alone are forcing the nation — and especially young people — to adapt and increasingly to embrace the changed racial and ethnic landscape.

Now, modern technology is making it impossible to ignore some of the most obvious manifestations of racial bias and raw racism in the U.S. — most blatantly in the confrontations that have taken the lives of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd in recent weeks.

One of the most positive developments in the U.S. is that young people are emerging as a prominent force in the most powerful protest movement since the 1960s. The recent student-led march that mobilized 15,000 people in Oakland to protest the killing of George Floyd is only one of many examples from around the nation.


https://edsource.org/2020/youth-prot...-states/633878

Gee whiz!

[T. A. Gardner]

Race is largely irrelevant. What makes or breaks a society is culture, language, and history, all of which the Progressive Left (aka mob) wants to destroy. When a country lacks a common culture, language, and history it no longer will be a country. Instead it becomes tribal and that leads to endless warfare between the tribes.

[TexanManWithPlans]

Race is largely irrelevant. What makes or breaks a society is culture, language, and history, all of which the Progressive Left (aka mob) wants to destroy. When a country lacks a common culture, language, and history it no longer will be a country. Instead it becomes tribal and that leads to endless warfare between the tribes.

Race isn't "largely irrelevant," unfortunately. Also, you sound no different than the klansman who wanted Catholics and the Irish out of America. I have ancestors from Sicily who relocated to Alabama in the 1930s and bought farmland. Klansmen burned a cross on their yard and tried to kick them out of town.

I'm not saying you're a racist, but you sure are spouting similar words.