Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an innovative leader in violence prevention for more almost 35 years. He is an accomplished trainer and speaker on men’s issues, racism, and diversity, challenges of youth, teen dating, and family violence, raising boys to manhood, and the impact of class and power on daily life. Paul has developed highly effective participatory and interactive methodologies for training youth and adults in a variety of settings. His work gives people the understanding to become involved in social justice work and the tools to become more effective allies in community struggles to end oppression and injustice and to transform organizations and institutions. Learn more about Paul and his work at, www.paulkivel.com and www.christianhegemony.org.
Intersections Radio is hosted by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., founder of the White Privilege Conference (WPC), which is held annually in cities across the United States; and Daryl Miller, who works with the WPC and other programs of the Matrix Center. The WPC is an award-winning national diversity conference that serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression, and works to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, and inequality. College students from around the country participate in the conference for academic credit.
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Adultism
I thought it was very interesting that Paul Kivel brought up the topic of Adultism. I have thought for years that it is one of the unspoken discriminations, and have never heard that title given to it before. It is true that there institutional discrimination against young people, even those who are legally adults but still not considered “real” adults from our drinking laws and car renting policies to general comments or poorer service in public places because of age. While of course the discrimination against young adults is less explicit than the discrimination against people of different ethnicities, but is actually quite similar to the level of discrimination against homosexual or bisexual people. Similar to the poor service a homosexual couple may receive in a non-gay-friendly restaurant, my boyfriend and I, visited a formal restaurant, well dressed and with polite behavior, we were almost completely abandoned by our waitress for hours. We saw her go to every table, except for ours, probably because she assumed that we were not going to tip because we were younger adults. Needless to say, we did not tip, even though we were prepared to, because of the horrible service. This example does not stand alone, young adults are discriminated and stereotyped against every single day, but without the help of powerful older adults helping, and hopefully after the significance of the youth vote in the past two elections they will help, how will it ever change?