Name: 'OMKalen': Kalen Honors Juneteenth with Angelica Ross and DeRay Mckesson
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T07:37:08.000Z
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for we are celebrating the one holiday that often

Joining me are two very special friends of mine,

actor, producer, and human rights advocate Angelica Ross,

and civil rights organizer and activist and co-founder

So much work to be done and so much great

I've never been more hopeful about where we

It's been a very challenging and interesting time that we've all

Angelica, you're in Atlanta, and I'm here in Los Angeles.

So we're all experiencing this on different types of levels.

want to start with is, why are we taught the origin of July 4

slavery was still happening 155 years ago.

And even though the Emancipation Proclamation

was issued in 1863, it wasn't until June 19, 1865

When we talk about "the slaves were freed," I guess,

or that America just created a different version of slavery.

Part of what it means to usher in a new world

is that we actually have to put those constraints out of mind

If these weren't the rules, what would we do, right?

Is that we actually fight for what we deserve.

We don't fight for what we think we can get.

And I think that we have to help people get to that place.

This system of white supremacy has done such a number

on our community that it has created not only trauma,

but it has created internalized white supremacy.

So when you have internalized white supremacy,

you have black people who have a white perspective

against themselves and their communities about how

to get through this white-centered world.

are like, well, isn't that the same as "all lives matter?"

It's a reminder that anytime we focus solely

on black people, people struggle with it, right?

It doesn't mean that I don't care about those, that I'm not

But in this moment, at this walk, at this march,

So that's how I think about-- when I say Black Lives Matter,

it is, like, we are focused on this issue right here.

That doesn't mean we aren't thinking about other issues.

That doesn't mean we aren't organizing around issues.

But in this moment, in this rally, in this march,

we are marshaling resources towards this.

And if it was true that all lives matter,

we wouldn't be out here in the first place, right?

White people can trust America in ways that we,

So the conversation then has to go back to trust.

If you trust in a system that I can't trust,

introduces eight policies that can decrease police violence.

I think that we probably could've done some better

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'OMKalen': Kalen Honors Juneteenth with Angelica Ross and DeRay Mckesson

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