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You've got no right.

Kids are so sweet, so innocent, which makes this famous photo all the more haunting. A young boy

dressed in a white robe and a tall white conical hat touches his reflection in a riot shield held

by an African American state trooper named Alan Campbell. The photo was taken in 1992 at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Georgia. Me and this kid,

neither one made a choice to be here, Campbell said sympathetically some two decades after the photo

was taken. The State Patrol made me come and his mom and daddy brought him. So let's be clear,

you've got no right, no right to fill your kids' minds

with your own nonsense. You've got no right to pass on your hate, your issues, your limitations

to them. Because make no mistake, kids are incredible sponges. They will absorb whatever you put

in front of their eyes, whatever you

shout into their ears. Not only do we not have the right to inflict our bullshit on our kids,

we have an obligation to do the opposite. We have an obligation to push them to be better than us.

Where we are angry, they should be given love. Where we are suspicious, they should be given

exposure and taught how to trust. Where we are afraid of change, they should be given a chance

to experiment. Where we are conservative, in the true sense of that word, they should take risks

and explore. What is the point of a new generation if they are shackled with the baggage of

the old? What is the point of creating life if we're are shackled with the baggage of the old? What is the point of

creating life if we're going to extinguish the joy in it? Your kids are a fresh start, second chance.

They can be better than you. They have more potential than you. They certainly have more time to get it

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