Re: Walk-out by Congressional staffers in protest of non-indictment

[ellenrr]

8. I agree there are mixed messages, and I try to choose my words carefully...

the 1st ferguson demo I went to was called by college students and I was sad that it was 97% Black. By which I'm saying - I'm sad that there are 30,000 students at this university - only a handful are Black - and apparently very few of the almost 30,000 white students chose to protest.
Maybe bec. they think that Police Brutality doesn't touch them. (mostly it doesn't).
Maybe bec. their mothers never had to have "that talk" with them, where they are told how to behave around police, so as to not lose their lives.
Maybe bec. when they are late coming home, their loved ones are not hoping that they haven't run into law enforcement.

Maybe it is a function of how the event was called - maybe it went out to Black social media groups.
I don't know.
maybe it is true that "today's kids are apathetic".
Even in the case of tuition increase, very few come out.

"Black Lives Should Have Mattered Long Ago"-
well-said. we could say that about so many things.

I remember Vietnam war - as long as poor kids, kids of color were fighting and dying- fine.
it was when they began drafting white college kids that you saw huge opposition to the war.