Holdin' Down The Culture
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Keiajah “Kj” Brooks, 20, a civil rights activist based in Kansas City, Missouri, recently ripped into the Kansas City board of police commissioners. Brooks accuses the KC police department of using Black children for Public Relations purposes and also called for Police Chief Rick Smith to resign.
Once she began speaking, Brooks stated, “Fair warning, I’m not nice and I don’t seek to be respectable. I’m not asking y’all for anything because y’all can’t and won’t be both my savior and my oppressor. I don’t want reform. I want to turn this building into luxury low cost housing. These would make some really nice apartments.”
Brooks then added, “So I’m not here begging anything of soulless White folks and self-preserving Black folks. You get one life, and you all in this room have chosen profits over people. And that’s pathetic. So I’m going to spend the next two minutes reading y’all for filth, something I’m sure nobody has ever done.”
Indeed, the United States has reached a point where policing standards must be reformed. Find the video up top.
