Forget About MTV - We Want Respect

There is this ongoing rhetoric, this feeling, this jibberish that I have heard way too many times. “Young people don’t count, young people aren’t doing anything, young people don’t vote.” I bought into it at first, but now, I’m at a point where I don’t want to ever hear that garbage again. The first time that sentiment rubbed me the wrong way was when Tom Brokaw released The Greatest Generation. He was doing his publicity tour, and he made some comment about how the current young generation – which happened to be my generation – Generation X, was spoiled, and had never really had to fight for anything. This was three years before 9/11, five years before we were dragged into an illegal war. All we had lived through was the ridiculous impeachment of our president over an extramarital affair.

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