The next Greatest Generation (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: David Gergen has been a White House adviser to four presidents and is a senior political analyst at CNN. CNN — As 17-year-old Simone Jacques welcomed some 10,000 protesters demanding racial justice in San Francisco, she told of how people kept asking whether she and her fellow organizers were part of an “org.” “We’re just youth who grew up in the city,” she said. “We’re just people who care and love each other and love each other enough to take care of each other.” David Gergen On the opposite coast, Kerrigan Williams and Jacqueline LaBayne, ages 22 and 23, organized a sit-in at the US Capitol by mobilizing the followers of Freedom Fighters DC – most of whom belong to their Generation Z age group. But also, there’s a young generation of white people who see that vision and are being mobilized to no longer just treat this as somebody else’s problem.” Long-time observers can well remember how many white people were tentative about joining the civil rights protests of the 1960s. In recent days, however, Fisher’s team of researchers found that 61% of protesters surveyed in New York City and 65% in Washington, DC, were white.
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