-One young woman grew alarmed when she saw Confederate flags pop up around her small town. Another student often quietly knitted to persevere through stress. A Black teenager in the South feared racist violence more than a virus.
"I feel like if we had a more normal four years I probably wouldn't be as loud," the 17-year-old said. "I'm growing up in that political climate where it seems like if you don't scream, the other side won't hear you.""I think it kind of brought me to be more politically involved and knowledgeable," she said.
With the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd, Prim witnessed civil action by ordinary people help prompt deep debate.After graduating a semester early from high school, Prim, 18, took classes at a community college. He will enroll at Winston-Salem State University in the fall. He plans to study sociology and justice, and he wants to one day open a youth community center. For the past two years he has been working as a youth mentor.
“My generation is just over it - over the division in politics and in the culture,” she said. “We want to have movements that lift each other up, not take each other down.” “Growing up when the #MeToo movement was happening opened my eyes to the possibility that in any of the situations made public, that could have been me,” she said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with political affiliations, at least it shouldn’t.”Perhaps it was inevitable that Shane Wolf, an 18-year-old of Ponca, Ojibwe, Santee Sioux and white ancestry, wants to pursue law to help Native Americans protect the environment.
Such focus has helped Rosales become captain of her school's Academic Decathlon team, and led to a scholarship to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She aims to become a physician.
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