Black Millennial Activists: Yes, Our Fight is Legitimate..
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For you early 30 somethings and younger - think you will appreciate this!
What seems to be the issue is that unless the situations are identical, the fight for our right to live peacefully will not be respected by detractors. Even though the terrorization of black people being lightly repackaged and resold as “those thugs getting what they deserve for disobeying the law” is directly paralleled to those who participated in civil disobedience in the 1960’s being told that they “got what they deserved,” the message is clear: Black Millennial activists simply don’t deserve respect because we dare to be different and we dare to be young while doing it.
And why? All because we’re demanding that we have the right to live freely. Millennial activists are called unruly, entitled, and unwilling to obey authority because we created for ourselves a space of community. Our platform of social media has been our tool for communication, coping, reassurance and unity, but because we have such a presence online we are called “unorganized” in our methods. We are blamed on national television for using our platform to express our justified rage, and chastised for daring to share information. We are called violent when we peacefully protest with our hands up – a gesture that is literally the thing a person does when they do not want to incite violence, and have misappropriated MLK quotes thrown at us in an attempt to make us docile. Because we want the youth to be heard instead of giving precedence to those elders who deem themselves worthy of taking leadership over our movement, we are called “disrespectful”.
To my fellow Black Millennial activists: our fight is legitimate. We are sound in our decisions and our struggle will not be infantilized and disregarded.
We are here. We will not be ignored. We will continue to fight for and bring about the change we deserve.
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"Even our music/protest songs" don't cut the older folks mustard.
I think there's some truth to that. 
But when I see them come out here at DU - they give me hope that maybe . . .just maybe they can set things right when it seems like lately - so much has gone wobbly and wrong for Gen Xers and older. 
F*ck the Police is now 'old school' - 
It was the easiest phrase to use. 
Why am I not surprised someone wrote that? 
This is to let our little pups know - I have their backs! And they better not "fall in line". We have got to start listening to them.
As we speak, right now there are two threads in GD that just make me 
One about why so many black men marry white women and another about why Africa is so screwed up. Man, this place... 
Considering that it is fairly common knowledge that black women tend to be better educated and make more money than black men, there is simply no other way to interpret that person's comments than the way that you did and in fact, I had the EXACT same response in my head when I read his post.
And no - I don't believe you married down anymore than my dad did! 
it was just such a craptastic sentence and I have my husband here saying - Eh Cah Cats - that's the phonetic spelling of "wtf" in Italian. ;/)
And my husband says the same thing - he married up!
There's a great book - Why Men Marry Some Women And Not Others - read it a few years back.
Your perception of your wife is very consistent with those men who were interviewed who had very long marriages.
That and - She's a better person than me <---- My dad's thing about my mom.
