“The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.”

These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…

Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.

All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.