Ta-Nehisi Coates

I mean, probably, yeah.

And I've probably said this a lot in public.

If you can extend the temporality out just a little bit of the struggle, I think it makes the mistakes not better, but understandable.

It's very, very hard to get any movement of humans to always act right, speak right, talk right.

I really, really wish people read more about the civil rights movement deeply because they were fucking up all the time.

Like, and people were doing crazy things all the time.

And some of the people that came out of that, you know, who led some of the most noble, you know, struggles in the world, like, became, like, Lyndon LaRouche conspiracy theorists.

Like, it's some crazy people there.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

And then we compare ourselves against this perfect image of what activism was.

And in fact, it was messy.

It was like really, really.

And there were a lot of uncomfortable things.

You know what I mean?

That were going on.

I mean, Fannie Lou Hamer, who is like lionized, you know, by the movement, and should be, and should be, but I'll never forget this quote that she, you know, they had of hers when she's talking about organizing.

And she says, we have to get the damn Toms out the movement.

And it's like, we don't want people calling people Uncle Tom's now.

We don't want to hear that.