Amanda

Those people become an ecosystem that then activate to go to these protests.

This is how Minnesota becomes Minnesota, right?

It's not just that everybody showed up one day.

It's that all of these people were already plugged in and already talking to each other like this gorgeous spider web.

And I think when we say, why isn't anyone leading?

What that is revealing is that we aren't in community because there's so many people who are leading and have been leading in our communities for decades and centuries.

And they're usually black and brown women.

And they are doing the work and have been doing the work forever.

So when we say, oh my God, no one's leading, all we're doing is revealing that we haven't been following.

It's not going to be some white lady who stands up and suddenly, that's not it.

That's not how this works.

So maybe we should bring up the whole freedom fleet again.

Like we've been talking about, you get in a boat.

The protests are just like the boat parades.

Okay, they're not the work that's being done every day in these boats.

And what you do is you just go and you find somebody that's doing good work in your community.

Then you show up and you ask, what can I do?

And then you humbly do the work that the people tell you to do.

And it's not sexy.

It's not like you have your Instagram and you're filming yourself being a badass.