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- Nov 07, 2020
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- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was white people who got Trump into office.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false. But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state and take on some of the most egregious acts against black people.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a popular discussion.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020