Third in a series.
Re: “New Man Won’t Be Mistaken for the Old One”
In evaluating the fairly drastic changeover in District 8 on the Los Angeles City Council, from termed-out 71-year-old Bernard Parks to 45-year-old community organizer Marqueece Harris-Dawson, analyst Damien Goodmon centered on age.
Young, he says, does not equal an improvement over a more mature predecessor.
“I am not wild about all of these people who say I am of a new generation because I am young,” said the 32-year-old fellow Millenial Mr. Goodmon, who always has played older than his chronological age.
“A lot of young people just try to be replacements for old people.
“There are a whole lot of young people out there doing old folks’ work in business.
“I would rather embrace a person as a more inclusive spirit who is older rather than a person who is younger and is going to do the same job that has been done for the last 25 years,” said Mr. Goodmon.
He prefers to avoid the supposedly sunny descriptive adjectives as “fresh,” “open” and “young.”
“That is not related to age,” Mr. Goodmon said, “but more to orientation.”
(To be continued)
