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Hello, everyone.
I am Feminista Jones
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and today I want to talk about
my thoughts on why
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the [erasure] of black women and girls
from the discussions
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about police brutality is--or may be--
more about racism
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than it is about sexism.
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I've been thinking about this.
I was gonna write a blog,
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but I didn't feel like typing.
I used to make a lot of videos,
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so I wanna kind of get back to that.
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And I feel like it's way better
to convey my tone,
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my thought, my sentiment,
through this format,
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so I'm hoping that this
makes sense to people.
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I'm going to see if I can have it
transcribed for the hearing impaired
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in the deaf community as well.
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So I've been thinking about this.
And those of you who know me
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know that I do a lot of advocacy
and activism around issues
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related to Black women and girls.
I focus on the Black community
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as a whole, but I really dig in
when it comes to Black women
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and girls, and I think that's because
I noticed a lack of representation,
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or this idea that we come second
after our boys and our men.
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I'm raising a son.
I have an eight year old son.
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I understand--like no one else--
the value of protecting our sons,
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particularly from the racism
that we see in our schools,
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that we see with the police,
that we see on the streets.
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Stuff within our community,
stuff even within our homes
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are really damaging
to all of our children,
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and our boys definitely need
special attention.
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And that's why I'm glad
that there are programs
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like My Brother's Keeper--
or initiatives, I should say,
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like My Brother's Keeper,
and why there's a lot of advocates
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out there that are
really, really, really pushing
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to look at the condition of Black boys
and Black men in America.
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The country, the world, really has been
talking about police brutality
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in America.
We all know that
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this is something that's been
going on for centuries.
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State violence against Black people
is nothing new.
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It's well documented,
it's been well studied,
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people have been talking
about it endlessly.
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However, it seems that within
the last four years or so,
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maybe six years or so,
it seems to be an uptick
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in state violence against
unarmed Black people.
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I don't know if it's
an uptick in the violence,
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or just that we are learning more about it
because we have social media, right?
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Social media gives us
instant access to things.
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Like somebody could get shot,
and within a couple of hours,
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we are there on the scene.
There's pictures, there's news,
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there's reporting from so many outlets.
It's almost like we're in the moment,
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watching it happen live.
And news was never like that before.
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Who knows how many people
have been shot and killed by police,
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who had been unarmed,
the stories that we haven't heard,
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and I just wanna take a couple of seconds
to really reflect on those people.
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I think those names
that we don't know are important.
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