Adultism

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 …

…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.