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DeRay Mckesson

American Activist

Born: Jul 9, 1985

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Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter. DeRay Mckesson

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Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible. DeRay Mckesson

You Important Possible Find Issue Close Curious

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. DeRay Mckesson

Silence People Black Avenue Tactic New Any Use Activists

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis. DeRay Mckesson

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Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. DeRay Mckesson

Heart Learn Acquisition Really Means Skills

I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much. DeRay Mckesson

Think Twitter About Always Friend Much Tweet Awake Why

If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time. DeRay Mckesson

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Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice. DeRay Mckesson

Work Justice Racism Hate World Country Important Crimes Has-Been Laws Since Ideals Important Work Been Which Rooted Inception Founded Speech

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had. DeRay Mckesson

World Had Up Friendly Officer Just Grew Image

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income. DeRay Mckesson

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Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world. DeRay Mckesson

Music People World Think Way About Shape Act Helps

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else. DeRay Mckesson

Gay Man World Black Live Else Everyone Everyone Else Way Complexity Secure Able Like Safe Identity Where Should

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs. DeRay Mckesson

Politics Nature Values Our Compromise Never Very Beliefs

When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people. DeRay Mckesson

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A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen. DeRay Mckesson

Noise Seen Visible Ways Also Heard Many

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two. DeRay Mckesson

Freedom People Be True Confuse True Know Comfort Always Two

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer. DeRay Mckesson

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I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it. DeRay Mckesson

Freedom You Fight Think Imagination Our About Around Urgency Imagine

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. DeRay Mckesson

Silence Think Protest End Confrontation Disruption

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