Ageism; the battle within

I was reminded how history has so many lessons while enjoying some of Edmonton's Fringe festival. Two of the plays I chose had some common threads. They   were biographical sketches of Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker; both black entertainers who came to be civil rights activists. 


David Hackett Fischer (historian) drew some parallels between prejudices that these early activists battled with their  persistent calls for awareness and change.
He saw the nature of prejudice to be always ignorant and usually hostile. It begins as a distaste for others and in the case of age (as opposed to race or sex), it turns into distaste for oneself.


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When you look in the mirror, seek the person you ARE, not the image cast by ignorant biases......

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