I don't ever want to die alone. Like I don't want to die and just be left there.

Oh, I'm going to cry. Yeah. And so we go and we pour libation and sometimes we're literally

standing on their blood.

So it's important that we understand, like Malcolm says,

that you cannot have capitalism without racism.

If you're not banking black, that means you are putting your money in banks that actually

profit from our oppression.

But most of the time, I just believe we can win. I just, you know, and I think

it's going to happen in my lifetime. I'm not doing it just for my kids. I'm doing it

for us right now. This is the

secret lives of black women I'm Charlotte and I'm Lauren and today we're talking

about black liberation and social activism. Yes I'm so

excited for us to talk about this topic is something I'm deeply passionate about. I can't believe that this is we're just getting to this

We were gonna get to we were gonna get to it. We were gonna get to it. It's a slow burn

Lauren you talk about this kind of thing a lot and I always feel like you are more articulate in speaking

about your rage than I am. Have you experienced feelings like this of being oppressed?

And what have been your

experiences with activism or just feeling like oppressed in this country? I mean you know I, I have very, I don't, first I don't think that I am very

articulated in my rage or my speech about my thoughts on this because I'm not you know I've not studied and I'm not a scholar but I have

participated in you know a lot of like a protest I wish that I was far more involved in you know protest and

liberation movements on a daily basis, but I do, I don't know, for me I feel like I'm doing the bare minimum for something that I'm so deeply

passionate about and just I'm frustrated about as a black woman that exists in this

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