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• ‟ We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.

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• ‟ Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.

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• ‟ We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

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• ‟ We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

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• ‟ The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

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• ‟ Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

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• ‟ If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

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• ‟ Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.

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• ‟ We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies.

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• ‟ We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.

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• ‟ To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.

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• ‟ Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

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