The New York Times solicited feedback and reactions concerning the ICE shootings in Minneapolis from several hundred US teenagers. Their comments are encouraging … Worth reading.
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Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 
Thanks, Dan. We boomers have screwed up a lot — we need to do everything we can to effect a passing of the torch of democracy to these young people.
Yes, the values of equality, human freedom, and democracy are worth struggling for, standing up for, shouting out for … it’s just stunning how so many of our elected officials instead embrace brutality, illegality, and the inferiority of groups other than “their own”. Stunning!