I am currently pursuing higher education as I have done in the past. ... My nephew goes to a suburban, mostly white, primarily middle-class and affluent school that teaches largely to tests while valuing less and less the language of a child's inner world. ... I could not even tell you today whether there was a gay youth organization, a disability activist group or even a band of neo-Nazis at Syracuse University in the late 1970's. ... My point is that I did not see it because I didn't seek out that information. I didn't seek out that information because I was never taught ...

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