And the Youth Shall Lead Them

And the Youth Shall Lead Them

When the Parkland shooting happened last month, I was numb at first. I couldn't even feel the depth of the pain for the Parkland community. There had already been 8 school shootings in 2018 and I thought this one would fade from the news just as quickly as those had. I have never been so glad to be wrong. The students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have changed the national conversation about gun control and what the response of survivors can be.

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Women's March on Washington

Women's March on Washington

On the drive up, the people around me were sharing their stories of why they were coming and if they had attended protests before. A white woman behind me said this would be her first protest because, "she never had anything to protest under Obama." I was flabbergasted. Had she not read the news for the last 8 years? Or gone on social media in the last 2? How could she possibly have had nothing to protest? And that's when I realized that we white women are very, very late to the resistance. Whether yesterday was your first march or you've been in the streets since Michael Brown's death, as a whole, our demographic is not only late to the party, we've caused a lot of the problems.

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