"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of #science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a #dream, why do we have #toes, why is the #moon round, what is the birthday of the #world, why is #grass #green?"These are profound, important #questions. They just #bubble right out of them.You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become #incurious.Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade." #CarlSagan
(#Book: #Conversations with Carl Sagan)
@gojonnes
Growing up in Memphis, TN, by 12th grade I had moved on from "Why is the moon round?" to
"Why is there so much poverty?"
"Why aren't there any white people on the city bus?
"Why are the residential areas so segregated by race?"
"Why does our president think that the wealthiest among us deserve tax cuts?"
Etc.
The "something terrible" that happened to me was getting woke and pissed off.
#ShitholeCountry #Injustice #Inequality #Equity #TaxTheRich #Racism #Woke
