This reminds me of a symposium I was at not long ago in which a white person giddily showcased a short video about an upcoming educational children’s show that was filled with youth of color that ended on a screen that said, I kid you not, “The revolution WILL be televised.” She was, best case scenario, oblivious to the origins of the phrase.

Privileged people sitting around trying to decided how to help less privileged people is always rife with problems. I think this is particularly true when it comes to older folks who seek to help young people. Two reasons come to mind, privileged folks seem to assume (much of the time) that less privileged folks want to be like them. And I don’t mean just the privileged part. And the related reason, privileged folks are often the benefactors of protestant or catholic capitalism and seem to frequently think that they are rich because they are right or good. If they were wrong or bad, they would be poor. Hence they don’t realize it is a relatively fragile thing to feel entitled to your own opinion, if they realize at all that their way of looking at the world is an opinion and not “the way it really is.” And so their ’solutions’ to the world’s problems always seem to bare the very seeds of the problems within them.