00:00What does it mean to be the ones who survived?
00:04What did our fathers, grandfathers, mothers, and grandmothers have to be?
00:09Because they had to survive.
00:11What were they surviving?
00:14What did it cost them?
00:16We must protect our survivors because by no small feat or metaphor,
00:22they are more than just our history.
00:25They are our collective memory.
00:30Those who survived and continue to live creating a new life
00:35that those who came after could only hear about.
00:40I can only hear about my mother, Slytherin.
00:43Your children and their children after will only hear about police brutality.
00:51Still, they will carry the scars of those before them.
00:57They will be, as we have been, reminded of their place in the world that wants to oppress them by silencing this history.
01:09By choosing to silence our history, to lock it up in our minds, by allowing those who oppress us to sit in their desire to forget our pain as well.
01:22Let us never forget because silence breeds space for lies.
01:27I promise you, we are stronger than the lies we are told.
01:32So we will no longer play into a game where we are treated as victims.
01:39They will be stormy towers.
01:42We will be advocates.
01:44We will be caretakers.
01:46We will take up spaces that we've been born from.
01:50Because when we converse, killing each other and validating our minds, day and day alone will be playing their game.
01:59When we care for one another, day and day alone will be playing their game.
02:14While I still can't remember, I must listen.
02:17While I still have my sight, I must see.
02:22Lest we fill our cups to the brim.
02:28We fill our cups to the brim.
02:34There we aren't.
02:51Hang on with on the front.
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