Brittany Packnett Cunningham

And people don't want to sit with that reality because they say, I got Black friends.

I got Black co-workers.

I invited her to dinner the other day.

I exercise next to a Black woman in my yoga class.

There's a Black woman who lives down the street.

I don't belong in the KKK.

I don't belong to the White Citizens Council.

But you didn't listen.

And if you did listen, you kept the truth to yourself.

And didn't see it as your job to go and recruit anybody else.

Had we listened to black people, had we listened to indigenous people, we very literally would not be here.

That's not me bemoaning the past or complaining about where we are.

That is me issuing a warning that if you make the same mistake again, we're going to end up in the same hell again.

If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

then we're being clinically insane.

Here's what you do even better, though.

You simply watch what they are doing to survive themselves and adapt it, right?

Because the thing about it is you're not just lost in the woods by happenstance, right?

I'm lost in the woods because you got in front of me in line and made sure that I was in the back and can't find my way.

We have to understand when Black people are like, no, I don't want to go leave because we've been back here trying to survive this entire time.