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Squinch

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5. I'm a marcher. I march a lot. But I am also a person with Covid risk factors. It is killing
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jun 2020

me, but I just can't take the risk.

However, my niece is out there every night and she's reading and talking to her friends and energizing the people around her. (I'm very, very proud of her. )

I think we are passing the torch into good hands.

And about what Boomers have done? It's easy to forget how far we have come, but we shouldn't. It isn't nearly far enough, but there have been extraordinary improvements in the lives of women and people of color on our watch. As a woman, if I had been born 40 years earlier, I could not live anything like the life I live.

Yes. It's never enough, but we moved the ball forward. And really, in the history of the world before us, the ball had never moved much at all.

Because of Covid 19 and young people not having school or much else to do JI7 Jun 2020 #1
Exactly. Boomers risk not only violence from police that they have weathered before, but COVID hlthe2b Jun 2020 #6
Boomers are helping with their $. safeinOhio Jun 2020 #10
Yeah, I'll risk it to vote HAB911 Jun 2020 #18
Baby boomers are in the high risk group for COVID ms liberty Jun 2020 #2
There's that, plus a lot of us no longer have the physical capacity to hit the streets. I can't tblue37 Jun 2020 #12
Yep. It stopped me from going out and I'm classic baby boomer. Born in '55. Solomon Jun 2020 #3
IMO Boomers certainly did their party for decades. It's heartening to see millenials... brush Jun 2020 #11
The youth have picked up the baton SallyHemmings Jun 2020 #4
I'm a marcher. I march a lot. But I am also a person with Covid risk factors. It is killing Squinch Jun 2020 #5
I agree. kentuck Jun 2020 #8
Things change gradually most of the time. 2naSalit Jun 2020 #16
Us baby boomers are in our 60's and 70's now. Many have health and mobility issues. Arkansas Granny Jun 2020 #7
I may not be able snowybirdie Jun 2020 #9
I'm a 73 yr old baby boomer. I wouldn't be caught in these secondwind Jun 2020 #13
Shouldn't be surprising - given their age and COVID. Should be a point of optimism Raven123 Jun 2020 #14
I can tell you why this Boomer isn't on the streets Maeve Jun 2020 #15
This old person didn't march because I have a sister with scarred lungs. lark Jun 2020 #17
Race relations will improve Chainfire Jun 2020 #19
I may not be out there protesting but give my support. Dustlawyer Jun 2020 #20
I'm out protesting locally-wearing a mask. Alliepoo Jun 2020 #21
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