"We Have Followed the Proper Channels and They're Not Working": Dispatch from Minneapolis

Behind the courthouse where the Derek Chauvin trial was taking place. A clip:

"We are peaceful activists. You need to understand American history, white supremacist history, to understand the suffering and oppression of black people and other people of color, Native indigenous people, okay?" 

I have a Native daughter. 

"But you're still white." 

True.

"If there is rioting, that would be completely understandable and that is what Martin Luther King Jr. tells us. He says that we have been unheard; we have been told to wait; we have been told that we're not resisting in the right way. What is the right way? We kneel during the national anthem. Well, that's not okay. What is okay? What is peaceful?" 

How long do you plan to stay chained here? 

"As long as I fucking feel like it…

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