“You know, ‘I can’t breathe’ – that wasn’t just George Floyd. A lot of people have felt they couldn’t breathe.
Every day you’re waking up and getting these tweets and you just don’t know, and you’re going to the store, and people who have been afraid to show their racism are getting nastier and nastier to you.
You’re worried about your kids and your worried about your sister and ‘can she just go to Walmart and get back into her car without someone saying something to her.’ And you’re spending so much of your life energy just trying to hold it together.
This is a big deal for us just to be able to get some peace and have a chance for a reset and the character of the country matters and being a good man matters. I want my sons to look at this, you know… It’s easy to do it the cheat way and get away with stuff, but it comes back around.
It comes back around. This is a good day for this country.
I’m sorry for the people who lost, for them, it’s not a good day. But for a whole lot of people, it’s a good day.”
Van Jones on CNN Saturday, November 7th 2020
