Brittany Packnett Cunningham

And indigenous people in what is now called Minnesota have been passing that on for generations.

And so many of them are the ones holding the line right now, which is one of the reasons why we know that this was never about immigration, because why is ICE raiding indigenous spaces?

Why is ICE detaining people who were here before the people who ICE hired and their ancestors?

The same is true with Black people, right?

We know Nakima's name because she had been an organizer in that space for a long time.

Robin Wansley, who's one of the city councilors in the Twin Cities, who has been one of the main ones pushing for this eviction moratorium, she's been organizing for years.

It is ahistorical to say that folks have just been doing this for the last three, four, five, six years.

And when people bring that up, they're not being contrarian.

They're not being rude.

They're not being mean.

They are doing the work of reminding us that if our fights are not inclusive, our solutions will not be inclusive.

If we are not intersectional now, then the world making we are doing, that world won't be inclusive either.

We actually have to practice that stuff now.

We have to build the muscle of intersectionality and inclusivity now.

So when people tell you, hey, don't just remember Renee Good and Alex Preddy.

Remember all of the other names that Amanda named and then some.

They're not doing it to get on your nerves.

They're doing it because they want to make sure that all of us are included in the world that we have to build.

Because when something's destroyed, something is built in its place.

And we'll either do it by happenstance or we'll do it intentionally.