This is excellent. It is enraging to suggest that an entire generation is out here doing the least—when time and again it’s been made public and proven to be untrue about gen z. As an elder millennial/gen x cusp, it’s embarrassing to see how many folks my age have fully embraced black capitalism as some hard won prize for showing up. They are terrified that the youth would want to dismantle this because then what does it mean for them? It’s archaic to believe that the only way to “prove” yourself is to be hosed down by cops or have dogs sicced on you. It’s not good counters and Woolworth anymore. It’s not bus sections and water fountains—but it’s also not disrespect because it isn’t that. Times are different and it would be idiotic to not use the tools that my generation have made the world addicted to while those fighting for the opposite do exactly that.
Just like trad wives and bro podcasts are turning and touching more than a single generation, so too is everything that youth activists are fighting for. If it looked the same, they would know they playbook and put an end to it. What scares folks my age and older is that they feel shut out or literally “old” in the sense that they can’t make sense of what’s happening. They believe in power structures where they are given orders.
You grew up in a different time to all of us. I never had to do a shooting drill. I was leaving high school when all that started. Your generation grew up with a profound lack of safety and juxtapose that to black capitalism which is very selfish—what are you left to think?
I applaud your generation. You hold values that folks in my generation are looked at as weird for espousing but we out here. Disarm them by not arguing. Kill em with facts.
This is excellent. It is enraging to suggest that an entire generation is out here doing the least—when time and again it’s been made public and proven to be untrue about gen z. As an elder millennial/gen x cusp, it’s embarrassing to see how many folks my age have fully embraced black capitalism as some hard won prize for showing up. They are terrified that the youth would want to dismantle this because then what does it mean for them? It’s archaic to believe that the only way to “prove” yourself is to be hosed down by cops or have dogs sicced on you. It’s not good counters and Woolworth anymore. It’s not bus sections and water fountains—but it’s also not disrespect because it isn’t that. Times are different and it would be idiotic to not use the tools that my generation have made the world addicted to while those fighting for the opposite do exactly that.
Just like trad wives and bro podcasts are turning and touching more than a single generation, so too is everything that youth activists are fighting for. If it looked the same, they would know they playbook and put an end to it. What scares folks my age and older is that they feel shut out or literally “old” in the sense that they can’t make sense of what’s happening. They believe in power structures where they are given orders.
You grew up in a different time to all of us. I never had to do a shooting drill. I was leaving high school when all that started. Your generation grew up with a profound lack of safety and juxtapose that to black capitalism which is very selfish—what are you left to think?
I applaud your generation. You hold values that folks in my generation are looked at as weird for espousing but we out here. Disarm them by not arguing. Kill em with facts.
Thank you Marley, for your brilliance! I hope the elders hear you 🤎