Brittany Packnett Cunningham
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You may not die as painfully as me, but it's coming for you too.
And Minneapolis has shown a lot of people that it's coming for white people too.
And in the end, we should be building a world where it does not take people being disappeared and abducted and kidnapped and murdered on camera for us to get that and for us to stop choosing individualism when the only way we're gonna get free is together.
A lot of white people don't realize that they're not free.
Yes.
Yes.
A lot of people thought that was cool.
A lot of people, if I'm standing next to you at the protest, they coming for me.
They are coming for me.
You just didn't know they might come for you too.
That's a hard thing to swallow.
I'm going to need people to go ahead and like not spend too much time, so much time being surprised that they don't get to work.
Let's give you a reward and a cookie for staying over here with us.
But it's worth it though.
I think all the time of Heather McGee's book, The Sum of Us, which everybody should read.
And she talks about what she's dubbed drained pool politics.
And it's, for me, one of the most clear examples of why we all have to be in this together.
She talks about
the social investments that the American government was making mid-20th century in neighborhoods, right?
We're talking about recreational centers, school improvements, library system improvements.