Reply #5: I share your sentiments. My family has always been [View All]

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politically minded and being a boomer growing up during the civil rights movement, vietnam, riots, political assasinations, I couldn't help but pay attention. The chickens finally came home to roost and I knew my son was beginning to 'get it' and truly show interest when Michael Moore's movie about bush and 9/11 came out. He's been off and running ever since! I think he's more progressive than I and dragged me EVERYDAY to the Obama campaign office prior to the election. Now, he's decided he wants to study international law. So, keep having those 'chats' and/or 'talks' at every opportunity and apply what's going on in D.C. to his life and the lives of those in his cultural and ethnic community. One day you'll be pleasantly astounded, as I was, at how much they absorb.