Ta-Nehisi Coates
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because of their questions.
But they kept it going.
But they kept it going.
And it was still going.
God bless them.
God bless them.
And it was still going.
And that was the network that she had activated for them to protest book bans.
And so I think there are things that happen loud.
And I think there are things that happen online.
And I think because of the way our media space works right now, anger and outrage particularly draw attention.
But there are things that happen really, really quietly out of 2020 that are tremendous, that are really, really tremendous.
And I guess the other thing I would push back on is I don't know how identitarian it was.
You know, I mean, there were like white people in small towns, you know what I mean?
Protesting.
There were people all around the world, you know, protesting of all sorts of, you know, 2020 was the first time I really, really saw white people in this modern time put their bodies on the line.
Like it was crazy.
You know what I mean?
Again, any movement has to question itself.
I don't think that's wrong.