and blinked.
But then looking at his age (and I have a niece the same age) - as the younger millennials come of age, they are fully realizing that history has been unkind to us (POC). And they are seeing that although much has changed, there is still much that hasn't.
The week before last when the House Dems were holding their sit-in, I happened to point it out to one of my younger nieces who I was babysitting (she is 10). And she innocently asked me "What is a sit-in?". I was gobsmacked and went completely silent... And then I attempted to talk about "protesting something that was 'wrong'", but honestly, trying to explain the reasons/history behind sit-ins and protests to a 10 year old, without making her want to broad-brush hate all white people (given she is growing up in a very integrated area), left me completely helpless to find a good analogy on the spot.
There are some young people who see what is going on and seethe as they try to process it.... and all it takes it something that might be entirely unrelated, to set them off, and they will "act out" and lash out about their state of being (even if the events really haven't impacted them personally as much as others). It's something that you see over and over and that was even given editorial cartoon treatment of late - i.e., "The talk".
And about "Dallas" - that was a place that my mother used to always reference. Back when we went to Hawai'i in the mid-80s with a stop-over in Dallas (American airlines hub), she made a note about it.
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