[W]e were born with a surveillance camera of the Empire looking at this state… [W]hen one enters into processes of consciousness one says: “This is not right.” …I think that’s one of the great challenges in colonized spaces and how through individual empowerment of each unite, to look at ourselves in the group and say:…
Part of the reason that this work is so hard is… it feels like part of the work that we’re constantly doing is peeling back the curtain and trying to see what’s happening. Then, trying to understand what’s happening. Then, how do we explain it to people? How do we fight it? It’s a constant…
There’s a lot of people who do research on Black families and speak for Black families and it’s like, you have a degree of separation [and] you think you can just separate the research from your personal life and you probably can, because you have that privilege. I can’t. A lot of us can’t. That’s…