, especially when you are seven years old. Wynta-Amor should have been playing with Barbie dolls or toy cars, not protesting a genocide at the hands of the state. Black youth deserve to be young and free.”
In addition, tokenization of youth begs questions on who gets to be seen as a leader to begin with. “I think in the youth-organizer space, and how the media covers these movements, there is a lot of colorism and tokenization,” Cham tells. “Some people listen more when the face of a movement does not look like me.
As Emanuelle Sippy, 17, points out, the work can be rife with tensions and contradictions. “On one hand, many of us are fighting for an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, abolitionist world, and on another, we’re working to the bone and competing with each other,” she tells.
In 2018, Stark recalled being in a breakout session for nonprofit leaders, hearing from a high-profile political leader who was giving a speech centered on “advice” for young activists in the audience. It wasn’t about how to organize effectively: “It was a full endorsement of the idea that youth activists should be performing certain norms of professionalism for adult approval and that this is the basis on which their work and their advancement in the field should be evaluated,” Stark says.
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