These remarks were made at a Black Lives Matter solidarity event in Media, PA by Sarah Willie-LeBreton, a sociologist and Black Quaker.

We are each other’s people, and we have inherited the lie that we are not each other’s people. That the people of the pastnare not our people; that the people of the future are not our people; that the people of the present who live in different skins, or have different hair, or speak different languages, who practice different religions, who vote for different parties, or have different bodies are not our people.