DeRay McKesson
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I love the internet for how, like, kind of they reword things.
Because, you know, I say that this is the term we're familiar with, like, white supremacy, white supremacy.
And then they was like, well, it's actually just white delusion.
And it's like, well, they get y'all onto something.
white people would know how this country started.
They'll know their people came here from Ellis Island, like even, you know, all of these things.
And then they'll be like, yeah, this is my country.
It's like, what are you talking about?
Like, how did you even get to the place where you really believe that?
And then the people that existed here hundreds and hundreds of years before you and thousands before them
Yeah, now this is like, they're not citizens because of this idea of what you have America.
America is entangled with this idea of whiteness.
My take on, I understand what black people mean when they say, this is not my fight.
I also understand the other side of it was like, whether you want it to be or not, it is.
Because when they start saying...
Okay, now we're targeting Haitians.
Well, that would just put every dark-skinned person on the line, period.