DeRay McKesson
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He was like, what can I do?
That was the mentality from what I'm hearing.
And a lot of people seem like helpless to start.
And what would be some like entry-level ways that you think somebody could get like just the everyday person into organizing, into activism?
Three is something they decided on.
Like, we can decide on a different number, right?
Man, you know, I don't think I looked at it as simple as that, though.
I was talking about friends and shit.
The most boring shit on TV was C-SPAN.
This is where people's information about politics comes from.
Every time I think about politics as a child, I'm thinking about C-SPAN.
All these white people sitting in this boring ass room and talking about bullshit.
It's like, I don't want to see that.
I want excitement.
I need stimulation.
Now that politics has become overly stimulating, it's like...
It's the same effect.
It's the extremes of boring versus overstimulation where people just kind of like, I don't want anything to do with this at all.
And now we're in a position where everything is politicized and you can't escape it.