DeRay McKesson
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It's like, if we have social programs and people can take the selfish need out of it,
Of I need this right now.
So like, fuck them.
Fuck how it affects them.
Fuck the consequences.
People need a bigger understanding of like, you know, to put yourself on the other side of this crime.
How would it make you feel?
And of course, you know, we have like a percentage of the population of sociopaths that don't give a shit.
But that's not the people that we're trying to help.
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.
These are things that people understand.
and maybe get policy passed or mandated because it can happen to anybody.
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.
Like when we understand it, when it affects people who can make policy change, who may not be in lower or impoverished classes,
They know how to affect those things.
So there's this program in Georgia called Mothers Against Drug Driving.
And you basically listen to testimonies from mothers who lost their children drunk driving.
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.
It's something I'm trying to wrap my head around, too.