The civil rights movement has certainly changed. GenX and Millennials have not as generations faced life-and-death decisions caused by the WWII and Vietnam War drafts — and forcing young people of those times to think about life values more closely.

But the immigration marches of last year marked the beginning of a new phase of the civil rights movement and continuation of our struggles.

Instead of worrying about the fire dying, we need to find ways to add more fuel — even a little stick helps.

The civil rights movement has certainly changed. GenX and Millennials have not as generations faced life-and-death decisions caused by the WWII and Vietnam War drafts — and forcing young people of those times to think about life values more closely.

But the immigration marches of last year marked the beginning of a new phase of the civil rights movement and continuation of our struggles.

Instead of worrying about the fire dying, we need to find ways to add more fuel — even a little stick helps.

For consulting jobs, candidates with leadership positions are highly desirable. Although those positions usually consist of Greek societies, which happened to be the same ones that the hiring manager was associated with during their heydays in college. GPA doesn’t mean much when you can’t deal with people or have people listen and do what you tell them.

Oh, I should mention that I am a person with a 3.9 GPA in electrical engineering, who is quite bland and utterly incapable of adapting to high-pressure social situations.

For consulting jobs, candidates with leadership positions are highly desirable. Although those positions usually consist of Greek societies, which happened to be the same ones that the hiring manager was associated with during their heydays in college. GPA doesn’t mean much when you can’t deal with people or have people listen and do what you tell them.

Oh, I should mention that I am a person with a 3.9 GPA in electrical engineering, who is quite bland and utterly incapable of adapting to high-pressure social situations.

I’ve heard of your work before, and I’m really honored you read 8Asians.

To answer your question, throughout law school, I attended many social justice law conferences where law professors from all over the country gathered together to talk about gender and law, race and law, poverty, globalization, and other topics of great interest to me. I recall sitting in the audience and hearing them in the round tables lament about the death of the civil rights movement. They would look out into the audience at the students and implore of us to revive the movement.

I guess it’s from hearing their tales of how it used to be compared to my observations of how it is now that induced me to conclude the civil rights movement is “dead.” Perhaps, though, “dead” is too strong a word. I don’t personally know how it was in the 60s and 70s because, well, I wasn’t alive then. But from what I hear, it sounds like people then were a lot more engaged than they are now. I see so much apathy from my peers, it’s really hard not to think differently.

I agree you do not need to be active full-time to be a part of the movement. What I meant by “selling out” had less to do with where you work as it did one’s mentality. Knowing one could make a difference, knowing it is within one’s personal power to effect positive change, and yet choosing not to and instead pursue what advances the self rather than what advances the community–that is what I am really complaining about.

I’ve heard of your work before, and I’m really honored you read 8Asians.

To answer your question, throughout law school, I attended many social justice law conferences where law professors from all over the country gathered together to talk about gender and law, race and law, poverty, globalization, and other topics of great interest to me. I recall sitting in the audience and hearing them in the round tables lament about the death of the civil rights movement. They would look out into the audience at the students and implore of us to revive the movement.

I guess it’s from hearing their tales of how it used to be compared to my observations of how it is now that induced me to conclude the civil rights movement is “dead.” Perhaps, though, “dead” is too strong a word. I don’t personally know how it was in the 60s and 70s because, well, I wasn’t alive then. But from what I hear, it sounds like people then were a lot more engaged than they are now. I see so much apathy from my peers, it’s really hard not to think differently.

I agree you do not need to be active full-time to be a part of the movement. What I meant by “selling out” had less to do with where you work as it did one’s mentality. Knowing one could make a difference, knowing it is within one’s personal power to effect positive change, and yet choosing not to and instead pursue what advances the self rather than what advances the community–that is what I am really complaining about.

I have a small, modest role in the movement and can tell you for a fact that many people of all different colors work everyday to improve social justice and opportunity in this country.

I do not blame the person who decides to take a well-paying Fortune 500 job instead of a lower earning nonprofit position. You don’t have to be to be engaged in civil rights full-time in order to be part of the movement.

I have a small, modest role in the movement and can tell you for a fact that many people of all different colors work everyday to improve social justice and opportunity in this country.

I do not blame the person who decides to take a well-paying Fortune 500 job instead of a lower earning nonprofit position. You don’t have to be to be engaged in civil rights full-time in order to be part of the movement.