OPPRESSION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE - ADULTISM - IS THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION Adultism is the first oppression all people experience. Parents must take charge of their relationship with their children. Presenting the world as a dangerous place with murder and hurtful people along with a "That's the way it is" attitude they instill powerlessness in children. As new forms of oppressions are later introduced, we now accept them without fighting …showed first 75 words of 403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 403 total…their relationship with (American) blacks (who have been shaped by this racism). The fear ingredient is also remembered in different variations by many: We sat on the bus with our mother. A young black male got on the bus and we felt our mother pull us a bit tighter. We didn't understand why this early message was given and it thus had a snowballing and crippling effect on our entire relationship to blacks ever after.