Kimberly Jones (Twitter: @kimlatricejones) transcribed (emphasis mine to convey the vital passion of her words):
So if I played 400 rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, I-if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it, Like they did in Tulsa, and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?
You can’t win, the game is fixed.
So when they say “Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood? It’s not ours. We don’t own anything. We don’t own anything.
There is-Trevor Noah said it so beautifully last night, there’s a social contract that we all have, that if you steal or if I steal, then the person that 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 fuck do I give a shit about burnin’ the motherfucker’s football hall of fame, about burning the fuckin’ Target. You broke the contract! When you killed us in the streets and didn’t give a fuck. You broke the contract when for 400 years, we played your game and built your wealth. You broke the contract when we built our wealth again, on our own, by our bootstraps in Tulsa, and you dropped bombs on us. When we built it in Rosewood, and you came in and you slaughtered us. You broke the contract, so fuck your Target, fuck your hall of fame.
Far as I’m concerned, they can burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn’t be enough. And they are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.
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