Posted on 09/11/2021 12:36:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
I’m a first-generation, 17-year-old Black American who grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood made famous by Jay-Z.
Given that brief biography, perhaps you’d assume that I’m a Black Lives Matter slogan-chanting, capitalism-chastising teen activist. Or that I’m an at-risk youth, destined for dropping out or incarceration.
You’d be wrong on both counts.
I’m a religious Christian and political conservative with an after-school job as a dishwasher at Panera: three things that, if we’re to believe the statistics about Gen Z, make me an outlier.
One thing the studies definitely get right: my peers and I are online all the time. I’ve had a cellphone since I was 11 years old and immediately downloaded Instagram. While there had always been references to social justice, they didn’t dominate. Until the past two years. Suddenly, they were everywhere I clicked and, often, at the centerpiece of our lesson plans at school. As classes moved from the classroom to bedroom, I began to notice my classmates denouncing their “white privilege” in Instagram posts, updating their bios with their gender pronouns, and posting links to various social justice causes.
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Nailed it.
Did you not read the article?
His parents are from Haiti. He’s a senior in high school with an after school job at Panera
I agree with that...
That’s awesome. And, yes, humblegunner is an ass.
In AOC’s district...
He’s well-rounded, bright and kind AND he grew up in a God- centered home with BOTH parents present. He’d won half the battle with having the parents he has.
He sounds like he could be a great American!!! What a great young man.
Didn’t realize you were attempting humor.
I don’t know, I don’t pay attention to fiction.
If I wanted fiction I would read a book.
AOC’s district is in The Bronx and Queens. But New York just might get rid of it.
Impressive. Especially for a 17 y/o.
His parents deserve a medal for raising him the right way.
I saw and heard many young Americans today paying homage to their loved ones who died on 9/11, at the NYC ceremony. They were inspirational.
They were so poised and articulate as they spoke lovingly of mothers and fathers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles and older siblings who died in the Towers and nearby on that awful day.
As I watched, through teary eyes, I thanked God for them and asked Him for more like them to bring this Nation back to its roots in God and the Bible.
I have been here since 1998 and he has done more to drive people from this forum and turn it into a wasteland than anyone. This is not a social worker dream. This is a forum. Not a place for disgusting drunks to spew their hate and bile.
This explained so much:
>> Here is the main thing I have learned:
>> When acceptance is the highest value, when avoiding condemnation online is worth more than the truth, the truth will be swiftly discarded. Online likes, followers and reputation — weak, empty values — dominate the teenage world because teenagers are not being taught alternative ones by the culture or, often, by the adults in their lives. They — we — are not being given the tools to answer the questions that really matter: What is truth? What is justice? And what is the purpose of life?
So it started with FB likes, and we moved swiftly to cancel culture....
Clap clap.
bttt
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