This young sister is spittin' str8 facts...ALL THE TIME!
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βWhy are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need?β
β Kimberly Jones
If I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didnβt allow you to have any money, I didnβt allow you to have anything on the board, I didnβt allow for you to have anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you, that was Tulsa. That was Rosewood. Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground.
-Kimberly Jones
βYou canβt win. The game is fixed. So when they say, βWhy do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?β Itβs not ours. We donβt own anything. We donβt own anything. [...] Thereβs a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?β
-Kimberly Jones
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10324200-if-i-right-now-decided-that-i-wanted-to-play
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βWhy are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that they feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need?β
β Kimberly Jones
If I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didnβt allow you to have any money, I didnβt allow you to have anything on the board, I didnβt allow for you to have anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you, that was Tulsa. That was Rosewood. Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground.
-Kimberly Jones
βYou canβt win. The game is fixed. So when they say, βWhy do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?β Itβs not ours. We donβt own anything. We donβt own anything. [...] Thereβs a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?β
-Kimberly Jones
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10324200-if-i-right-now-decided-that-i-wanted-to-play