If you are a kid, for example, it can be great to go into a classroom and not be required to do any work, a relief not having anything, or not having very much, expected of you. But their response is not to organize for change, or to make plans for direct action. Some of this has to do with the time we are living in. It is difficult to think in terms of community. Ironically, the very victories of the civil rights movement have in some respects drained the community of human resources.
Power seems unassailable, invulnerable when faced with challenge. . . .
I think part of what defines the difference in times is that what young people are up against today is less clear than the raw racism of segregation laws and the Ku Klux Klan. . . . In that sense, the civil rights struggle lives on. Homeroom, which appears every other week, is a forum for you. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.