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At a dinner party in 1935, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was conversing with a young woman who said, “What a wonderful thing is youth!” Shaw sagely replied, “Yes — and what a crime to waste it on children.”
The exchange was memorialized in the well-known but acerbic adage: “Youth is wasted on the young.”
With all due respect to Shaw, I beg to differ — especially after meeting sisters Nene and Ekene Okolo, ages 20 and 17, who are using their talents to combat racial injustice. The pair are being honored at the National Conflict Resolution Center’s Peacemaker Awards on May 15.