Images of a Past Still Present: When Children Become Objects

Last updated on: February 4, 2015 at 6:06 pm by Sam Rocha

Images of a Past Still Present: When Children Become Objects 2015-02-04T18:06:33-06:00 Sam Rocha

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There was a time, not too long ago, when adults heckled children — protesting the school integration movement.

Sometimes these protests became physically violent.

But there can be violence in a look.

There can be violence in a word.

The time of adult violence against children is not over.

There was a time, long ago, when — as Billy Kangas reminds us — a child named Jesus was an undocumented refugee, too.

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