Tarana Burke: 'If it weren’t for Black women, I would not have made it'
The formidable activist, educator and originator of the phrase Me Too talks about her work to combat sexual violence in America and her hopes for a Biden/Harris administration
Look around. All the books, podcasts, articles, conversations are about how white people can be better. I don't give a shit what you do as a white person except get your foot off my fucking neck! How do you watch Black people die in the street and then turn around and want to help white people?"
It's 1pm in Baltimore (we're on Zoom) and Tarana Burke is gracefully folding laundry at home as she speaks these words, giving voice to a feeling that I have had since May (and the killing of George Floyd): There's nothing special or different about Black people that you have to learn to treat us like human beings."
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