Wow. I do hope we have a President Obama, but if we do, he certainly has his work cut out for him.
What’s with the Ongoing ageism, and of the worst sort! it’s one thing for the youth to be dismissive of the older generation – they’ll grow out of it – of necessity. And, of course, with a little bit more effort – you know, the sort that Sen. Obama states will be required of kids in return for college aid? They might have better values than to be dismissive of their elders. But what excuse can there be for elders to be so dismissive of the younger generation? Didn’t you raise them? Aren’t these your children and grandchildren – your future? And if they don’t know anything about the world – whose fault is that? Actually – just as in every generation – kids know plenty about the world -but the world they inhabit is different from the one you grew up in. The college generation today has NEVER known a time when a desktop computer was not commonplace. Think about that! They are entitled, no, required, to think different thoughts about the world – and to be heard, in balance, because theirs is the world that’s coming.
I say that as a mother of a child off to college in 4 years, who remembers being “dumb” and “smart” in ways my mother never could understand.
I’m an African American, proudly supporting Obama, saddened by the riff between him and his pastor – who is ALSO of an age to think that the next generation doesn’t know what they are talking about, and who the heck told Barack that he could run for President? Doesn’t he know (as we elders do) that no one’s going to elect a black man, not even one with a white mama? I’m proud that this is a man who is at least TRYING to bridge the generations, and I’m sorry to see that there’s so much willful determination to avoid it.
QT
