Brittany Packnett Cunningham
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that's where you spend your days every single summer.
That's where you build your friendships.
That's where you learn how to swim.
That's where you learn how to lead.
Those are some of your greatest memories.
And then one day your mom tells you, you're not going to the pool this summer.
Well, why not?
The pool is shut down.
Oh, is it shut down for temporary maintenance?
No.
No, the pool is shut down permanently.
But why is the pool shut down?
Because we didn't want black people swimming.
So you would rather drain the entire community's pool, shut down everybody's favorite spot on a hot summer day that you got to use for free than have black people swim next to you?
Well, now everybody hot.
Now everybody's bored.
Now nobody has any place to go.
This is what I mean when I say white people thought they were free.
but the scourge of systemic oppression harms you too.
Even though it benefits you, but the benefit is temporary because that house of cards will come crumbling down on you too.