Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「Social justice activist KJ Brooks is unapologetic about what she says.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Video of the 21-year-old went viral in late October after she publicly lambasted members of the Kansas City Police Board of Commissioners for their complicity in police violence against Black people. Brooks and a handful of local organizers attended the open meeting to call for the resignation of Rick Smith, who heads the tumultuous Kansas City Police Department, amid the city’s most violent year and months of protests against police brutality.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “I’m not nice and I don’t seek to be respectable,” Brooks said during the public meeting as she faced the five members of the board, which includes the mayor and four Kansas City residents appointed by the governor. “I’m going to spend the next two minutes reading y’all for filth, something I’m sure no one has ever done.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ And one by one, Brooks delivered. She said one member “exudes white privilege and is the epitome of white mediocrity” and that another — a Black pastor — was “subjecting Black people to terrorism and other un-Christ-like behavior.” She added that one member was there because she had “nothing else to do at 8 o’clock in the morning but be rich and white and retired.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The viral three-and-a-half minute video helped Brooks land on Teen Vogue’s “21 Under 21” list and amass more than 300,000 followers on Instagram, where she uses her platform to openly talk about her mission to abolish the police. (She’s against reform.)⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ She’s also vocal about how Black women like herself are leading America’s racial justice movements.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “Black women are the backbone of this movement,” Brooks told HuffPost. “There’s not a person alive who could tell me different. A lot of the work and ideologies come from Black women.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📝 @kynado // 📷 @miketphotog」2月6日 9時06分