A very thorough, informative, and insightful discussion of recent trends in the media, academia, and activism in the United States. From my vantage point, the discussion makes clearer the profound ethnocentric and ahistorical character of the recent U.S. movement, which has been incapable of imagining that the issues related to the construction of a just society have been central to the social revolutions forged by the peoples of the global South and East for 100 years, which have attained important gains in political-economic practices, of significance for all of humanity.

I like Nellie’s method of “traveling around, visiting places, talking to people, and writing about it.” What if this method had included traveling to Latin America, Africa, Asia, or the Middle East? And what if “talking to people” had included reading the speeches and writings of the historic leaders and important intellectuals of these lands? If some of the youth in the movement that Nellie analyzes had followed a more global and historical method, surely they would have been able to contribute greater maturity to the U.S. movement.

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