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In reply to the discussion: Re: Trayvon Martin [View all]EFerrari
(163,986 posts)in the claims she made about the treatment of black youth in the criminal justice system. That's ignorance for you. It hates having its comfortable bubble jostled against hard surfaces or sharp edges.
I blame suburban living for a lot of things. It isolates nuclear families into stressed, fragile, unsupported units, it occludes just about every basic process of living like where your food comes from or where your garbage goes, it promotes mind numbing conformity that discourages taking your brain out for a ride just because you can, which is the dying off of critical thinking, curiosity, even being able to attend to something outside yourself.
How can people who live that way get it together to notice injustice, let alone, to take action against it.
Social justice is a habit of mind and like language training or hygiene, kids need to get it early on so they can incorporate it in their view of the world they live in. it's not a habit you get from a bumper sticker or to please your college friends. Without a basic grounding in the humanity of other people, our kids become sponges for whatever shallow narrative the corporate media decides is most profitable on any given day.
And that's a shame.