â Youth for the People, 1968
âThey said we have no say to our education. We have been told and brainwashed that our parents do not know how to control our schools. They have said our parents are the reason why the system is fucked up today. The system was fucked up when our parents were going to school. While they were trying to straighten it out Shanker and his boys (the board of Ed.) were at it again.
âYouth for the Peopleâ say we do have a say in what happens to us and also in our community. We will not be governed in the slums by a person who lives in the suburbs. A person who does not give a damn about the problems of our communityâŚ
No, our education means more to us and those generations that will follow us. We plan to prove it by participating in programs designed to help our community and or our school system⌠We have attended governing board meetings, we have attended teacher - community meetings, we have been called militants and other names even more derogatory. But this only proves we have the power of youth to determine along with our new aware parents the struggle to improve our educational system.
We will not sit still and let our community be run by the âEstablishmentâ or to put it more bluntly, the day of the pig is over and up against the wall to anyone who doesnât believe it.â
