these different things that are going to improve our conditions in our community. you know you just messed up, right, you said the r word, reparations. [ laughter ] there s white people watching right now. no! that s a scary word. how do we approach that? how do we make that less scary, you know? it isn t about black people getting a huge check. that s not reparations. reparations is investment. what we re saying, if we have proper housing, proper education, access to food, that s the way you fight back against, you know, violence, not hiring more police and firing teachers. that s not how you do it. you do things that are going to support and help people thrive and have a high quality of life. they re doing the opposite. so, that s how we know oppression is real. that s how we know we are still colonized because we re not getting the same access to resources as other communities happening right now in this country. when black lives matter shows up for the teachers union, are y
these different things that are going to improve our conditions in our community. you know you just messed up, right, you said the r word, reparations. [ laughter ] there s white people watching right now. no! that s a scary word. how do we approach that? how do we make that less scarey, you know? it isn t about black people getting a huge check. that s not reparations. reparations is investment. what we re saying, if we have proper housing, proper education, access to food, access to mental health care, that s the way you fight back against, you know, violence, not hiring more police and firing teachers. that s not how you do it. you do things that are going to support and help people thrive and have a high quality of life.
the reputation online is that black lives matter only cares about police violence against black bodies. if they research and learn for themselves they ll learn that people are talking about referations, resources, all these different things that are going to improve our community. you just said the r word, reparations. there s white people watching right now like no! that s a scary word. how do we approach that? how do we make that less scary? it s not about black people getting this huge check and that skit dave chappell did. if we have proper education, access to food, health care, that s the way you fight back against violence, not hiring more police and firing teachers. you do things that are going to
resources, to talk about all these different things that are going to improve our conditions in our community. you know you just messed up, right, you said the r word, reparations. [ laughter ] there s white people watching right now. no! that s a scary word. how do we approach that? how do we make that less scarey, you know? it isn t about black people getting a huge check. that s not reparations. reparations is investment. what we re saying, if we have proper housing, proper education, access to food, access to mental health care, that s the way you fight back against, you know, violence, not hiring more police and firing teachers. that s not how you do it. you do things that are going to support and help people thrive and have a high quality of life. they re doing the opposite. so, that s how we know oppression is real. that s how we know we are still colonized because we re not getting the same access to resources as other communities. happening right now in this country. whe
why in this case? it s one way you have to go because the lawmakers are in the pockets largely of the unions. the courts are saying in this case and there s another suit in new york now, these kids are getting a second class education because it s impossible to fire bad teachers. it s that simple. what this exposes for me is just how much the system puts the adults ahead of the kids. these laws cannot be justified on educational grounds. there s no educational basis for firing teachers based on seniority and not whether they can teach. there s no educational basis for giving a teacher a job for life after 18 months in the classroom regardless of whether she can teach or not. you re basically saying that because the political system is so locked up and imperv just to change and dominated by the union mow noly, therefore you