I thought the video showed in lecture today did a very effective job of conveying the attitude of the oppressed urban youth involved in the Young Lords. Watching the video made me feel almost worthless about my live. While these individuals dropped everything to rally around a worthwhile cause, today, it seems like we have all lost the fighting spirit. Surely it can’t be because there are no public troubles anymore. There are still people living in poverty, with no shelter, no healthcare, and a maintaining only fraction of the things we take for granted every day. Yet it seems to me like we just don’t care anymore, at least not nearly to the same extent. I assume our lake of outspoken spirit is merely a token of our distance from most of these problems. I would like to hope that if we lived directly under remotely similar conditions we would go to just as powerful means to fight the injustices.
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