Whose Streets? Page #4

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That's a revolutionary act.

That's strategic.

They don't tell you the fact

that the police showed up

to a peaceful candlelight

vigil of just a bunch of people

holding up candles 'cause

they hurting and boxed them in

and forced them onto a Quik Trip lot.

They put property over people

and say we got a problem

in St. Louis because a

Quik Trip burned down.

But ain't no alchemist, no doctor,

no wizard on this planet can

bring back Mike Brown, Jr.

I'm a mother of five.

I'm a grandmother of five.

That mother lost her child.

If we don't come together now, when?

And for the ones who have

they feet on people's necks,

when do you feel like enough is enough?

'Cause you gotta know that when

you keep pushing somebody up

in the corner they gonna come out swinging.

Well, we swinging.

No more of our sons.

No more of our sons. No more.

Tell them don't shoot, hands up.

And that's when the protesters

was just in the streets like,

"Hell no, we ain't going nowhere."

You know, we was occupying

the streets that we paid for.

I was just blown away by

the sense of community.

Black, white, everyone coming

together for this common cause.

People from the black middle class,

people from the hood driving

by honking their horns.

Supportive. I get chills

just thinking of it now.

A lot of people didn't do it justice

when they put it on their timeline.

'Cause when you in the heart of it,

you get to see faces and you

get to feel that black love.

There they go.

Here they come.

Don't shoot.

You are unlawfully assembled.

You need to disperse immediately

or you will be subject to arrest.

Do it now.

Hands up.

Shoot, man, we put our

hands up. What's good, man?

We got our hands up, we ain't did nothing.

We retreating and you still shooting.

- Get the f*** out of here!

- We retreating, you still shooting.

Move it along. Keep it going.

You ain't gon' out shoot them.

It sound good, it feel good,

it look good, but you

ain't gon' out shoot them.

They got more jails, they got more guns,

they got more bullets.

So, you not gon' win that battle, man.

You know somebody that got a sound

system, get on the phone and call them.

You know somebody that got a car they can carpool

somebody to a meeting or to a rally, do that.

You know, that's

progressive. That's progress.

That's positive, but

burning down Quick Trip

ain't gon' get us nowhere but

them with more guns in our face,

shooting more of our kids.

Understand what I'm saying?

Right now is the time for

us to influence the people

who don't think like we think.

Have the right conversations.

Use your social media.

I'm telling you, I got on Twitter

yesterday and got to work, man.

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