conversely, you need friends who are younger to help introduce you to new ideas. You need friends who are younger to drag you out to try some adventure because they thought it looked cool. You need younger friends to help you fix problems, because they may have faced something similar in the past! You need younger friends to keep you up to date on slang so that you can embarrass your teenage family members by intentionally misusing it.

having friends who are older than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards older people.

It is also just a given of life. Those that are like "Why would a 40 year old ever even be near a 16 year old? Thats sus!" Have never worked a minimum wage job or gone to college, especially community college. My first year of school, I was friends with a 36 year old man with kids I was closer in age to. My senior internship was in a cardiac rehab unit and I made friends with people an average age of 65. I was often teased at being in charge of their workout plans when "I have shoes older than you". I had a 50 year old coworker last holiday season and she was great, I loved working with her.

BAD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by white NYPD officers whilst arresting him after they suspected him of illegally selling cigarettes. He was choked to death using a banned chokehold manoeuvre while he pleaded with officers, telling them 11 times "I can't breathe". On December 3 of that same year a grand jury decided not to charge the NYPD officer who put Garner in a lethal chokehold. The event sparked protests and rallies across the US. On July 13, 2015, an out-of-court settlement was announced in which the City of New York would pay the Garner family $5.9 million. While the killer officer was eventually fired in 2019, none of the police involved in Garner's murder have been charged with any offence. Instead New York City painted the words "Black Lives Matter" on one lane of a short stretch of 5th Avenue. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896/eric-garner-murdered-by-nypd

Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

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