Emma was brilliant & effective, especially her six-minute pause. I just hope she isn’t corrupted by the spotlight and the politicians who will seek to hijack their movement.

God, I’m so proud of these kids—and I’m only 24 dammit, calling them kids makes me feel old—I certainly had strong opinions at their age, but nowhere near the courage and skill they’ve had in making their message heard loud and clear.

I’m so proud and in awe of these kids. We as adults should be ashamed that they’re doing what we should have and they are NOT backing down.

The WH/IQ45 are wishing them well to save face (and because they’re passive-aggressive trolls) but otherwise, agreed.

Yep.

And its not just lack of media representation for the students of color.That’s bad enough. The media also needs to take some responsibility for uplifting the Parkland students and constantly referring to them as brave and smart, while at the same time vilifying BLM, for basically saying the same thing.

Absolutely. When viewing the news directly after the event, I saw very view obvious students of color. I especially didn’t see (or it wasn’t shown) anywhere close to 25%. But let’s be honest: if the school shooting was at a predominantly Black/Brown school the coverage would have been over weeks ago, the president…

So many Black teens marched after Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and Mike Brown were killed by police officers. They did not have celebrity, mainstream media, and corporate support the way these kids do. One of my biggest complaints about Obama was that he didn’t support BLM enough in fear of pissing off Whites (who…

He’s half way there this kid. But wow. 25% of the school is black and they hardly show any prominent black kids from that school. Yeah, not surprised.

I think it was the Time cover/similar levels of media that made them realize that Aaliyah Eastmond was getting cut out of media portrayal and they have been trying to signal boost her without putting her life in danger.

People of color in this country, in this culture, tend to not matter as much as those who are white; that is the truth of America. In the Black Lives Matter movement, young black people have been shouting from the rooftops until their voices are raw and hoarse, and America hasn’t listened. But now that it’s white kids…

The kids are alright.

Bowtie overdose as a Young Republican. Fucks the neck up.

Tucker Carlson is the embodiment of some ridiculous experiment gone awry in which a bow tie becomes sentient but somehow does not attain self awareness.

I think it’s a side effect of way too much brow-furrowing and puckering his lips like an anus.

And that’s proof positive to him that white people are now suffering the same fate.

More pointedly, he doesn’t want to be a minority.