kids need to grow up fast.

This is a hard ball world and they better learn fast that actions speak louder than words.
Fascists don't care if they are children. They will stomp on them them and tell them it's they're fault.
There was a slogan in the military when I served: "Freedom isn't free." To Conservatives, fascists, nazis, MAGA, and the KKK, "freedom" is just a buzz word meant only for white men. You want freedom, you need to fight.
This is going to be their world and if they want a voice in it, they better start now.
To white people, this may seem a dangerous novelty, but the youth have been fighting for equality in this country for decades. This is not new, this is a continuance of of a great American tradition.