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It is time to make a movement, a movement of change and embracing who we are not only as men, but same gender loving men. We can no longer have lack of commitment of self and commitment to others we engage in relationship. Diversity is the hallmark of this generation. Millennials have friends of many races, ethnicities, religions, and genders—and they prefer it that way, as messy and awkward as getting to know people who are different from themselves can be. Unlike any previous generation, Millennials are comfortable with change and ambiguity. They reject the rigid norms that demand adherence to a Democratic left or a Republican right. They know that, at times, both sides of the political aisle have failed them, and they refuse to embrace easy and old-fashioned categorizations that don’t produce results. To be specific, the members of the Millennial generation will rightly recognize that despite their current hardships with finding jobs and global insecurity, the source of their woes didn’t begin with and won’t end with the Obama administration. Leonhardt knows this too. “To Americans in their 20s and early 30s,”he writes, “many of these problems have their roots in George W. Bush’s presidency.”But he refuses to allow this reality to seep into his case, suggesting that Millennials “are too young to remember much about the Bush years.” That’s a convenient pivot and an opportunistic effort to whitewash history and let young people off the hook for being ignorant of their past. It won’t work: They’re smarter than that. Similar to my generation of Baby Boomers, Millennials will be studied from cradle to grave, with speculation about their behaviors and ideologies following in the wake of their lives. So much of it will be speculative nonsense. As the father of one among their ranks, I’m convinced that young people are savvy enough to 4 EDITOR INSIGHT | A LETTER FROM THE EDITORBY RAMESES FREDERICK