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DeRay McKesson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1316 total appearances

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

It's like, if we have social programs and people can take the selfish need out of it,

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Of I need this right now.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

So like, fuck them.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Fuck how it affects them.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Fuck the consequences.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

People need a bigger understanding of like, you know, to put yourself on the other side of this crime.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

How would it make you feel?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And of course, you know, we have like a percentage of the population of sociopaths that don't give a shit.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

But that's not the people that we're trying to help.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

It would have to be a social program because I know like DUI risk reduction, those type of classes where you have to see, where you have to listen to mothers who lost children.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

These are things that people understand.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

and maybe get policy passed or mandated because it can happen to anybody.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

So the most tragic thing is a child leaves from graduation night, goes to a party, gets drunk, kills him and his friend, and they were supposed to have this bright future together.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Like when we understand it, when it affects people who can make policy change, who may not be in lower or impoverished classes,

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

They know how to affect those things.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

So there's this program in Georgia called Mothers Against Drug Driving.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And you basically listen to testimonies from mothers who lost their children drunk driving.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And I think the way that people hate to go to those, it's because they know what the... Because now you feel the effects of like, damn, bro, I don't understand.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

It's something I'm trying to wrap my head around, too.