DeRay McKesson
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man, I had to overcome the system, so to speak, and being fully immersed in it and always being in and out of it, that I would rather you have a different problem.
I know there's different problems we can have.
It doesn't have to be a jail problem.
And I don't want y'all to have that.
But like, I'm wondering from somebody in your perspective, like policy and things like that, like how vulnerable are young black men to like this system, so to speak?
I talk about it all the time.
I'm curious what you mean.
The thing that is most interesting to me, this is, um,
It's a lot of violence.
And they make everything about drugs.
I think it's like a sleight of hand almost.
You make these things about drugs.
You make drugs seem like the most paramount issue.
The biggest fucking issue is violence, especially sexual violence.