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"user_text": "\"The famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead, once said to me that children have a distinct moral authority to change some of their parents\u2019 habits or opinions. She gave use of seat belts and smoking cigarettes as examples.\n\nIndeed, most of us know instances when sons and daughters have looked into the eyes of their fathers and mothers and urged them to wear their seatbelts or stop smoking. They say in their own plaintive way that they want mommy and daddy around for them. Many mothers and fathers have had such experiences.\n\nMany parents and corporate executives are doing slow motion dances round global climate disruptions, despite the brutally visual and scientific evidence of our climate crisis. The rising tide of worldwide protests in recent months by young students cutting classes to shake up their elders should be a wakeup call and a sign of more activism on the horizon. Earth Day on April 22nd should give them another visible platform.\n\nLast year the Global Youth Climate Strike manifested itself in Sweden, where it was started by a then fifteen year old teenager, Greta Thunberg. Every Friday she stood in silent protest outside the historic Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.\n\nOn March 15, an estimated 150,000 European students left school to protest. In Sweden, Germany, France, Britain, and other countries, these youngsters admonished adults, who have the power to urgently diminish greenhouse gases by cutting the use of coal, oil, and gas, and expanding the use of renewables and energy conservation.\n\nIn India, demonstrations were about the suffocating air pollution. In South Africa, protestors spoke about the worsening droughts.\n\nAt a rally in Washington, DC, eight year old Havana Chapman-Edwards told protestors at the U.S. Capitol: \u201cToday we are telling the truth and we do not take no for an answer,\u201d according to the New York Times.\n\nProtestors already see the truth in the South Pacific\u2019s rising sea levels and the Arctic Circle\u2019s melting ice.\n\nThese youngsters can argue their case with facts and figures, with stories of record-setting fires, floods, tornados, and hurricanes and species extinctions. But they are viscerally feeling the impact of climate crisis and fearing for their lives before reaching middle age.\"\n\nhttps://nader.org/2019/04/16/childrens-moral-power-can-challenge-corporate-power-on-climate-crisis/
https://nader.org/2019/04/16/childrens-moral-power-can-challenge-corporate-power-on-climate-crisis/",
"headline": "Global climate protests start in Australia before UN summit",
"url": "
https://news.yahoo.com/global-climate-protests-start-australia-020706196.html",
"timestamp": "Fri Sep 20 14:10:55 UTC 2019"
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"user_text": "If you can integrate with most Whites with ease and partake in White privilege, you are not Black. At most, you would be multiracial.\n\n It's that simple.",
"headline": "A DNA Test Revealed This Man Is 4% Black. Now He Wants To Abolish Affirmative Action.",
"url": "
https://news.yahoo.com/dna-test-affirmative-action-180621088.html",
"timestamp": "Fri Sep 20 05:23:39 UTC 2019"
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"user_text": "\"4%\" is insignificant. Another anti-Black white guy trying to increase his privilege.",
"headline": "A DNA Test Revealed This Man Is 4% Black. Now He Wants To Abolish Affirmative Action.",
"url": "
https://news.yahoo.com/dna-test-affirmative-action-180621088.html",
"timestamp": "Fri Sep 20 05:21:58 UTC 2019"
