Social media, they had down. Social justice, that was another matter.
For 29 high school students of all backgrounds who gathered last month at a leadership camp addressing “social justice issues,” the phrase meant different things to different youth. To most, it meant nothing at all.
Equal opportunity, they understood. Dissent, they shared with Facebook friends.
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“What was in the ’90s looking like a golden age for African-Americans has very quickly lost its shine,” said researcher David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank emphasizing social justice.
Bositis said the limping economy, the rise of the tea party movement and growing public disapproval of President Barack Obama’s performance in office “to some degree make race more of a matter of solidarity.”
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