Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️May 24, 2023

I never thought I'd call a high school valedictorian metal but that was before this kid called for school board members to resign over their participation in racist and queerphobic oppression targeting students during his valedicory address.

The kids are out there putting it all on the line, fighting not to be dragged into a theocratic future. Adults could learn a thing or two.

Calling for the school board to resign at graduation. Fuck yeah he did.

https://dailyprogress.com/community/orangenews/orange-county-valedictorian-calls-on-school-board-members-to-resign-at-graduation/article_a1cbcf70-f9af-11ed-9eff-ff57adb96e35.html

Orange County valedictorian calls on school board members to resign at graduation

More than 300 Orange County High School students received their diplomas on May 20 at Porterfield Park. The commencement ceremony was a poignant reminder of the obstacles this distinctive class

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Show threadEddie D
@e_urq when teenagers are smarter, kinder, and more tolerant than the adults. Rise up young people. Time to save yourselves, and us, from the fascist minority.
May 24, 2023 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadEvan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️May 24, 2023
@ed_donofrio I really think we can't put saving us on them. Maybe leading us, showing us, but not saving us. Adults need to pitch in so much more than they have been. People need to be less afraid of upturning their settled lives because those lives are going to be changed irrevecobly by if the far-right succeeds in reshaping our society.
Show threadFifi LamouraMay 24, 2023
@e_urq @ed_donofrio This! I see so many older people putting it all on the kids when they have so much more real power than kids do!
Show threadEddie DMay 24, 2023
@e_urq well said. Totally agree. I'm just numb from the sheer volume of hateful, selfish, spiteful, dumb adults.