They have also created a campaign — which the poster board is part of — that aims at fighting hate crimes and empowering their peers who face discrimination. Those are the two words we most want our politicians and leaders to say when they mess up. Here are a few:“To me, that phrase is about destroying the distance we create between us and our imperfections,” Junior Karma Price wrote. We can’t distance ourselves from the bad or imperfect things and hope that they’ll go away if we don’t acknowledge them. “I would like to think I’m not prejudiced, but there are small things and judgments I make about people,” 16-year-old junior Talli Basile said.

Source: Washington Post April 10, 2019 19:24 UTC