Jason Reynolds

just like posing for the reporters he does not care they ask him over and over again if he's a communist and he says the following i'm not being tried for whether i am a communist i'm being tried for fighting for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country and they are not they are not in mississippi and they are not in alabama that is why i am here today you want to shut up every negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people for the rights of workers

I'm obviously a little more toward the Pauly side where it's like, I think they poisoned him.

And for his son to get sick too.

Yeah.

Come on, man.

We know what it is.

Like, I just, I didn't know that part.

And I think that part kind of has me a little emotional and a bit rattled just because, I mean, I mean, because there's anger there for me.

But that's the thing, right?

You say we forgot.

We didn't forget.

We never knew.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

The information like his life had been redacted.

And I think and this is the thing that I think about all the time is that if you can't beat me at any of the things.

Right.

If I if I am objectively better.

at all of the things, my intellectual capacity, my athletic capacity, my creative capacity, my fervor and spirit, the only thing left to get me is to make it so that I never existed, right?

Is to turn me into a ghost.