Kimberlé Crenshaw, What Divides Us Is Injustice | MAKERS Moment

Kimberlé Crenshaw, What Divides Us Is Injustice | MAKERS Moment

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KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: There are those who are gonna tell us from this moment on that the project of equality is over with and that the only thing that we're doing is, you know, continuing to talk about old wounds and old issues and dividing us as a nation. I think what divides us as a nation is injustice. What divides us as a people is sexism. What separates us from each other is racism and xenophobia.

So as far as I'm concerned, as long as these problems continue to present themselves, as long as we have to worry about whether we can be in a public space and be assaulted because of who we are, as long as we have to worry about whether we're gonna get paid the same thing for the work that we do, as long as we have to worry about whether we can buy a house in the neighborhood that we want or walk down the street and not be assaulted, as long as these are realities, then we are not done. Then we continue to talk back to power because power is talking at us and our only choice is to talk back to it or to succumb to it. I'm not ready to succumb to power in any shape and form.

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