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DeRay McKesson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1316 total appearances

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

The black teacher got killed.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And the thing is, there's just no response to like, like they literally just like left her to die.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And so this is the thing, it's like,

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

The psychology of these people is like they're heroic, but you're like, obviously not.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

You're just cowards that are engaging in violence at all times.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And you're class traitors more than anything, which is a whole nother conversation.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

But the police are the biggest class traitors in this country.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Anywhere in law enforcement, period.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Y'all selling your fellow man out for the promise of money, who Trump obviously is not giving y'all these bonuses either.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

So y'all got fucked over too.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Which is going to make you even more violent because, you know, we always punch down when we process our anger instead of like pointing up.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And that's just like a phenomenon that I see in America all the time.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

You can see it with, you see it, and you've probably seen this in education, right?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

Where teachers are taking out a little more personal situations on certain kids.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

They pick and choose what kids are problem children, and they direct all of the attention to them.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And the issue that I used to have in school more than anything is attention, right?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

The worse your behavior is, the more attention you get.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

But you're considered good if they don't acknowledge you at all.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And I think that there needs to be a reversal of just that psychology is that I ignore the person who does everything right.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 125 - Deray McKesson

And if we know kids are extremely attention-based, you're incentivizing bad behavior when you only pay attention to bad kids.