'For this fight to be successful, it's about all of us. We all have to come together for it to actually be true justice and true Black Lives Matter.'
, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and you just can't look away from that. You just can't pretend like that isn't happening."BKG:"I think, possibly because people are at home, that the consciousness had space to open up and awaken in the people who, up until this point, just thought that the killing of [Black] people was happening somewhere else and not inside of their own communities.
BKG:"It's devastating. I think it's tragic. I think it's part of the problem. I live in LA and [I have been] protesting. At rallies, I've been very grateful and thankful that the names of trans women have been said and the names of Black women have been said, because I think so often we either separate Black women or we don't talk about Black women and Black trans women in this conversation.
BKG:"One, I would say I understand, but two, it's not an excuse. Too much is at stake. Our lives are at stake. We are legally being murdered. We have been legally murdered in the street, and that has to change. And the current leadership isn't going to do that. I encourage people to realize that you're not by yourself. So maybe you think that your vote doesn't matter, but your vote plus my vote plus those 10,000 other votes, that matters. That 1,000% matters.
police budget as opposed to investing that money and making sure that our kids have full-time nurses in their middle schools. Or that our communities have mental health and social services. That doesn't make sense to me."We're talking about actually doing something that will better a community, that will help a community thrive, that will give a community the resources that they so desperately need. And quite honestly, that white counterparts get and we don't.
BKG:"I just finished up my second season of the show on Monday.
BKG:"I don't know how much I can tell you, but I will say that in Season 4, there are a couple of episodes that I'm very proud of. I co-wrote one of the upcoming episodes [which] is about Matthew, our queer character, and an experience that he's having in terms of realizing, not his sexuality, but his sexual-ness. Like, you know, that part in puberty where it's time to touch people and kind of recognize what that means.
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