by Erin Conlon Now more than ever, it’s essential for young people to stay politically informed and civically involved. And for the Youth Council of AD 50 (that’s our State Assembly district!), they’re going above and beyond — and are currently finalists in the Mayoral Service Impact Awards’ Youth Impact Award category for their work with Voluntas Juvenium.
The Youth Council is a group of high schoolers highly engaged with improving both their school environment and the…
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Fabulous. Well Written. You notice there was no mention of DEI, AA, CRT, gender, ex con, ethnic, sexual preference, promotion, preference, privilege.
It was united, showed equality not division.
In other words, equality, not division, preference, promotion privilege,
Paul, the politicians most often opposing restorative justice policies like these are the same who oppose DEI, affirmative action etc. These are high school students—I would be careful about the narrative you’re trying to project onto them.
Thank you for your reply. If an estimated majority of white women voting for a demagogue, predator, threat to democracy like Trump doesn’t convince you of the damage far left, woke toxic feminists have done (not the original important women’s rights movement), nothing will. Like the noble, iconic Lincoln taught us unite the middle, condemn the extremes in this case toxic Trumpers and toxic far left woke feminists. They co depend and enable each other like an alcoholic couple.
It’s so nice that Emily Gallagher didn’t have time to include herself in the photo.