Our Generation Will Overcome

As the twenty first century dawns, this generation is, quite simply, still in a mess. But by far we have more potential to be a record-breaking generation than the past generations in many ways and we can make a positive difference.
I spent April 24,2002 with my friend, his younger sixteen-year-old brother and seven of his friends who were having a water fight on a mountain. Their socioeconomic status ranges from struggling to make ends meet to almost somewhat comfortable. They are wonderfully American. Among them is one South African immigrant, one African American, one Puerto Rican, one Latino, three of northern and southern European descent. My friend and his brother are first generation Americans with parents from Ireland. These teenage guys are between the ages of fifteen to nineteen. …