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Gen Z comes of age protesting the death of George Floyd
Generation Z is coming of political age as they join with thousands in protesting the police killing of George Floyd, and much of it is playing out online.
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Generation Z is coming of political age as they join with thousands in protesting the police killing of George Floyd, and much of it is playing out online.
- The first Gen Zers, born in 1997, have cast aside their parents’ means of communication — newspaper, television and radio — for the internet, and they’ve been online from an early age. They’re abandoning traditional media altogether in favor of the web and consuming their news largely via social media,
- “There is a stubborn resistance to treating young people’s political activism as normal, but the truth is that it’s neither extraordinary nor exceptional,” Jessica Taft, an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, told the University of California. “Children and youth are not on the sidelines. They are protagonists in the fight for their rights and their well being.”
- Many of Gen Z’s cultural leaders — such as 16-year-old Charli D’Amelio, who has 60 million followers on TikTok — are using their platforms to talk about the protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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