.TalibKweli zoomed into FallonTonight to discuss activism, how proud he feels watching his daughter protest and more
on Wednesday night from the studio to chat with his old pal Jimmy Fallon. When the host jumped right in and asked the activist/rapper why the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and the subsequent nationwide protests are different from other mass mobilizations after previous police-involved killings of black and brown men and women, Kweli took it all the way back to the Civil War.
Combine that energy of people trapped in their homes for months and a need to release that formed what Kweli called the perfect storm of"riot energy" and you have the sight of police precincts being burned down for the first time since 1968 following the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While he's in California now, Kweli said he's been following his daughter's activities at protests in New York. And though he's scared for her physical safety amid the pandemic and the nighttime violence that has marred some protests, he's also incredibly proud of her for speaking up and showing up."She's my daughter, she's doing exactly what I would have been doing at that age," he said.
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