Chris Rock, Bill Clinton, Bono, and others were in Harlem's Apollo Theater yesterday to champion youth activism. Rock: ""I think we're trying to make activism cool again for kids."
Clinton later made an impassioned speech about young peoples' chance to change the world etc etc.
Bill sure is brazen sometimes. Did he ever stop and think, just for a moment, what his presidential administration--with its scandals, its endless cynical spin, its falsehoods, his obvious skirting of the law with regards to campaign financing, his own lies with regards to Monica Lewinsky--did he ever stop and think about what THAT did to young peoples' cynicism and their willingness to be involved? Young people were as cynical and as uninvolved with politics during the Clinton era as we'd ever seen them.
